Unconscious Relational Templates in the Film 9/1 Weeks
Listen to the entire article: In the 1986 film “9 ½ Weeks” directed by Adrian Lyne, Mickey Rourke plays John, an investment banker on Wall Street who falls into a highly erotic relationship with Elizabeth, a beautiful art gallery executive played by...
Fatal Attraction: Unconscious Recruitment and Enactment
Listen to the entire article: It is a rather inconvenient truth that what seems to get a romantic relationship going – namely attraction as well as other things like shared interests and similar backgrounds – is not really what draws two people together. That’s...
The Shared Psychological Origin of Narcissistic and Codependent Relational Styles
Listen to the entire article: In adult romantic love, there is an unconscious precedent to utilize relational tendencies and strategies of attachment that were initiated in childhood. Another way of saying this is that we don’t just love in a straightforward...
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