“Breaking the Mirror—Overcoming Narcissism: How to Conquer Self-Centeredness and Achieve Successful Relationships," by Norman Goldwasser, Ph.D.
The book I’ve been waiting for on narcissism. Dr. Goldwasser writes to narcissists instead of writing them off. His thirty years of specialization in this area results in a book that is challenging yet compassionate, scientifically informed yet practical, and providing a pathway toward effective, mutually protective relationships.
Common Male Misinterpretations of Women
Men often take offense and unnecessarily get defensive over things that women didn’t mean.
Relationships live in this Dynamic Tension
Have you ever wondered why interdependent relationships are so hard? This is why…
Better Alternatives to Unhealthy Relating
If your relationship is unhealthy, look to excise these and replace them with better alternatives.
What is a Narcissist? A Sociopath? A Psychopath?
What distinguishes a narcissist from a sociopath from a psychopath?
A Few Relationship Essentials
There are some things no relationship—certainly no marriage—can do without.
Contempt: The doorway to divorce
Contempt is the greatest predictor of divorce. Do you know what it is how it’s formed, and how it is overcome?
Abuse, Narcissism, Borderline and Individual Therapy: Uses and misuses for addressing couple dynamics
Abuse, Narcissism, Borderline, and individual therapy all provide insights into understanding relationships dysfunction. And from all of those insights, necessary self-protective boundaries might be drawn. However, there are limits to each for properly identifying and effectively changing unhealthy relationship dynamics into healthy ones.
Feelings or Thoughts? Thoughts or Feelings?
Empty Nest & Retirement Years as Invitations to Re-Create Shared Meaning
Be nice
The Heart Bone's Connected to the Brain Bone: an exposé on Phenethylamine, Dopamine, and Oxytocin
How being right can cost you your relationship
As relationship expert, Terry Real, has said, “You can be right, or you can be in relationship.” Research by The Gottman Institute supports this notion.
Can Narcissists Change? A pathway.
Can narcissists or those with narcissistic tendencies change? If so, how?
Are We Responsible for Others’ Feelings? Are They Responsible for Our’s?
We’re not responsible for others’ feelings, and they’re not responsible for our’s, but we’re both responsible for how we influence each other.
Married and Divorced for the Same Reason
Essential Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): If you’re not in jail, it’s because you’ve used DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), despite it’s clinical and mysterious sound, it quite familiar and absolutely essential to functioning well in life and in relationships.
How to Ensure that the Blessing of Children is also a Blessing to your Marriage
A baby changes a marriage. Every parent knows this. But what does the research say about these changes? And most importantly, what does it tell us about how to protect the health of the marriage while we tend to the well-being of the children? Answers from The Gottman Institute and its Bringing Baby Home® curriculum inform this article.
Other-Protection as the Universal Antidote to Destructive Patterns
Research has given us words for behaviors and patterns that destroy marriages. The good news is that there is one word that counters them all.
Marital Stages
The stages of marriage are here compared to marriage (or long-term relationship) stages when affected by addiction, by personality disorders (specifically borderline and narcissism) and by other mental health conditions.