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Demand-Withdraw Pattern

Are You and Your Partner Stuck in a Loop? Picture this: one partner brings up a concern about the relationship. The other shuts down, goes quiet, or leaves the room. The first partner pushes harder to be heard. The other withdraws further. Nothing gets resolved, and...

Can Couples Overcome Core Compatibility Issues?

couples

Can Couples Overcome Compatibility Issues? Picture this: you and your partner are at the kitchen table, disagreeing about finances. Again. Last week it was how you spend your free time. Before that, it was family obligations. Different topic, same standoff, like...

Critical Incident Stress Management: What the Research Actually Says

Trauma + PTSD

Summary Critical Incident Stress Management has been one of the most widely implemented and most vigorously debated psychological interventions in emergency services for four decades. Nearly every significant fire department, law enforcement agency, and emergency...

Female First Responders: Gender, Identity, and Compounded Trauma

Trauma + PTSD

Female First Responders: Gender, Identity, and Compounded Trauma Summary Female first responders occupy one of the most psychologically complex positions in contemporary emergency services. They are doing the same work as their male colleagues, under the same...

Wei Shujun’s Only the River Flows: Projection, Shame, and the Dissolution of Self

Media Analysis

The Madman’s Face of the Professional God: Projection, Shame, and the Dissolution of Self in Wei Shujun’s Only the River Flows: Projection, Shame, and the Dissolution of Self in Wei Shujun’s Only the River Flows I want to make an argument that might sound,...

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