Articles about Relationships

With issues like gun-control, we often miss opportunities to create change by ignoring what it means to be balanced.

Ever wonder how one gets trapped in the cycle of abuse? Is there even hope for one who has been entrenched in such type of partnerships? This article provides a brief ove...

7 principles for making marriage work developed from Dr. John Gottman's over 40 years of multidimensional observation of over 3000 couples.

9 Things People with PTSD Want You to Know

19 Sure Win Ways to Cope with a Depressed Loved One

On the road with a loved one living with schizophrenia? Our practical tips and advice help you become their pillar of strength and hope in this challenging journey.

A psychoanalytic take on how we try resolve powerfully conflicting emotions towards those who matter most. Contains disguised session material.

Psychoanalysts are seeing a sharp rise in extramarital affairs among couples. Why do we really have affairs outside marriage, and is social media making them more prevale...

This paper examines a specific auxiliary defensive process that enters the post-partum period in a couple. To protect her infant, a mother splits and diverts aggressive i...

Why does love invariably get contaminated by hate and anger, which apparently sets out to destroy the initial intimacies of almost every couple? Why does anger and emotio...

The anatomy of the couple system, and the instinctual drivers that facilitate its emergence.

This paper explores the aims of the death-drive and aggression and its relationship with narcissistic injury in the couple dynamic.