The Men’s Group Seminar: The Psychology of Complaining
In an intriguing episode of the Hidden Brain podcast series, the psychology of complaining is pursued in interviews with researchers Michael Baer and Robin Kowalski. At a basic level, complaining is a relatively common form of “venting” among colleagues and friends...
The Relationship Group Seminar: Rethinking the Notion of “Settling”
In social discourse, the notion of settling is often used in a negative light, i.e., to suggest foreclosing on the search for “true love” for something less, perhaps motivated by the pressure to move on with other goals and milestone events including, perhaps,...
The Men’s Group Seminar: The Most Insidious Coping Mechanism in Modern Culture: Vertical Splitting
Freud was perhaps the first and most important theorist who sought to understand coping. Dividing the mind horizontally, Freud believed that what the human psyche could not tolerate (in thought or in reality) is suppressed/repressed and subsequently sequestered away,...
The Relationship Group Seminar: The Phenomenon of “Excitement” and Its Role in Dysfunctional Relationships
Many types of compulsive and addictive behavior are solidified by what is known as a “partial reinforcement schedule” — doing something repeatedly to receive a reward that comes at entirely randomized time intervals. The randomized timing of the reward...
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