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Leon F Seltzer Phd

Leon F Seltzer Phd

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When a Major Conflict With a Friend Is Unresolvable

What to do when a friend betrays your ideas of fairness and reciprocity.

24.04.2024 20

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

“Civil War”: Action Flick or Scary, Dystopian Wake-Up Call?

Disunited we fail: Are we literally headed toward sea-to-sea in-fighting?

11.04.2024 20

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

Does Your Partner Really Want to Control You?

A partner’s frustrating, overbearing behavior may have little to do with intent.

03.04.2024 20

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

Parents, Scared Children, and Accidental Emotional Abuse

Most emotional abusers must learn to think not moralistically but empathically.

18.03.2024 20

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

How Parents Gaslight Their Children

When adults minimize or neglect a child’s distress, they feel invalidated.

13.03.2024 10

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

The Evolution of Lying: As We Mature, so Does Our Lying

“Evolved” dishonesty is far less egocentric than the more naive, juvenile kind.

21.02.2024 20

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

The Unpredictable, Borderline Mother Can Handicap Growth

Borderlines deny their child’s separate reality, unwittingly gaslighting them.

08.02.2024 10

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

Silence as Communication Isn’t Always Golden

It all depends on the situation either to embrace silence or shun it.

24.01.2024 10

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

4 Benefits of Remaining Calm When You’re Criticized

There are crucial reasons to welcome—rather than resist—criticism.

10.01.2024 9

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

Five Powerful Solutions for Neediness

How much approval and validation do you need from your partner to feel okay?

13.12.2023 30

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

Six Key Reasons to Avoid Feeling Needy and Dependent

Needfully lavishing praise on someone is unlikely to get you into their heart.

06.12.2023 8

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

Seeing Both Sides and Embracing a Fresh Perspective

20.11.2023 10

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

Depression and Recklessness: Can They Be Blood Brothers?

Paradoxically, major depression can embolden a person to act recklessly.

08.11.2023 10

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

Your Survival IQ: How Calm Can You Stay in a Crisis?

Getting distracted may be good for you—at least, up to a point.

03.11.2023 10

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

7 Reasons Why Too Much Patience Can Sabotage You

How to be not more patient but less so.

25.10.2023 8

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

How We Can Be Agile, Balanced, and Resilient Like a Cat

Nine lives? Revealing the secrets of cats.

11.10.2023 20

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

How Are Narcissistic Love Bombers and Their Prey Similar?

18.09.2023 10

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Leon F Seltzer Phd

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