Attachment

Addiction is an attachment disorder.  Human beings, addicts or not, only know and repeat what was modeled for them during childhood.  I like to call ages 0-10 healthy narcissism given ... Read More

By Dr. Jocelyn Markowicz, PhD, Psychologist Attachment Hope for Couples: How to Improve Your Security Odds You walk into the room and lock eyes with the most gorgeous human being you ... Read More

Editor’s note: Early attachment trauma can also occur due to non-abusive circumstances, such as when a child is separated from their primary caregivers due to medical concerns. However, ... Read More

Life does not always turn out the way we’d like. We carry our stories. In some moments, we might feel like kings. In others, we feel like failures. We feel grotesque. For some, the ... Read More

In part 1 of this series, we touched upon the blissful and frightening states that can occur when we feel merged with a partner whom we love. These states are drawn from our earliest experiences ... Read More

“NO, that’s NOT what I mean.” “How could you say that?” “I wasn’t finished. Where are you going?” At first glance, sudden and intense misattunement between partners may ... Read More

If you have ever been in a relationship, you have experienced hurt. It is inevitable. Even when two people have a connected, secure, and healthy relationship, they will experience hurt ... Read More

Someone recently asked me why they needed to know about the interpersonal process. There seemed to be a misunderstanding that the interpersonal process is only focused on building rapport, ... Read More

Complex trauma is what happens when someone experiences multiple incidences of cruelty and abuse in the context of an unequal power relationship. This is most commonly found in people who ... Read More

Love is a topic that has never lost human relevance or interest. Poetry, songs, essays, novels, movies, and multitudes of self-help books focus on this marvelous, mysterious topic. Yet, ... Read More

Everyone has some sense of their future, and the way that sense is experienced may have an impact on whether a person is successful or not. Does your future feel threatening or promising? ... Read More

We’ve all seen it: the child in the supermarket line willing to tell you all about himself despite not knowing you at all, or the little girl who plops herself in a new teacher’s lap ... Read More