September 2022

How do survivors with untreated/un-neutralized hostility from traumas deny/numb it through addiction, implode at themselves, or explode at others?

Trauma and Hostility, Uncategorized /

How important is it to process the trauma experienced? Well-intentioned people as trauma survivors often reenact similar traumas on themselves or others, including their own siblings or children, due to the improper processing of their own traumas; therefore, the survivors’ ability to break the cycle of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intergenerational transmission of trauma may depend […]

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Empathy is love!

Compassion and Empathy /

Empathy is the most effective form of love for all nurturing and healing relationships that must precede any boundary enforcement. We humans lack effective empathy skills essential for maintaining or repairing damaged/disconnected relationships.Therefore, empathy must be trained as the most advanced communication/parenting skill. What is the highest level of compassion?  It is empathy at Stage

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A1. An Integrated Theory of Personality Development

Uncategorized /

The theory of an individual’s emotional/ personality development, proposed here, results from integrating various developmental psychology and psychoanalytic theories. The outlined integration of theories of human emotional development has revealed relative consistency between them. This chapter will review various theories from classical and contemporary psychoanalysis and humanistic psychology before integrating them to derive a theory of

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Mental health services have not been available for many AAPI and other minorities even before the pandemic: Korean immigrant family perspective

political/social/legal Justice, Psychotherapy, Racism, Group Bias, Prejudice, Scapegoating /

  Mental health services have not been available for many AAPI and other minorities even before the pandemic: Viewed from Korean immigrants and their families’ perspective. Since the pandemic, there has been an increase in depression, anxiety, substance use, and suicidality (CDC, 2020 June). With various mental issues on the rise during the pandemic, there are

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What can be an empathic (Stage 5) solution to the problem of homelessness?

Compassion and Empathy, Domestic Political Leadership, Racism, Group Bias, Prejudice, Scapegoating /

Homelessness has been an issue for many cities in the world’s most socio-culturally advanced countries. Officials in these countries have had no clue how to solve the problem except to clear the street by driving the homeless out, after which they would return. The irony is that people seem more generous toward stray cats and

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What happened to the empathic ability of the Uvalde police officers? Test your own empathy by observing your response to this video here!

Compassion and Empathy, Domestic Political Leadership, political/social/legal Justice /

You may wonder what happened to the empathic ability of the police officers at the Uvalde shooting. We can use the 5 stage empathy model to understand their action at the time. Every human being has the survival need to meet in a dangerous situation. When the police officers were reluctant to break into the

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Empathy Controversy: When Two different empathy concerns collide.

Domestic Political Leadership, political/social/legal Justice /

Isn’t feeding the homeless an empathic act? El Cajon police arrest 9 people for feeding the homeless – Jan. 14th, 2018 Isn’t feeding the homeless an empathic act? How about housing a runaway child at your place or feeding a stray cat or pigeons living under a neighbor’s roof? When two empathic concerns collide, we

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When you feel like hurting your ex-lover upon breakup, divorce, or affair revelation…

Trauma and Hostility /

Many self-injurious, suicidal, or homicidal behaviors targetting their ex-lovers upon breakup, divorce, or even revelation of an affair occur regardless of their educational or ethnic backgrounds. We must study developmental psychology – objection relations to understand the psychology behind these behaviors. According to Ghada Alsharif, Staff Reporter at Tronto Star, as of August 30, 2022,

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Empathic Parenting needs to replace the ineffective conventional parenting approaches in dealing with emotionally challenging children.

Parenting Styles /

Roland Kim’s proposed 5-Stage Model (2021a) doubts Baumrind’s claim that authoritative parenting is the best approach to real-world situations. Most children who need extra discipline at home or school may benefit from a more advanced approach, such as empathic understanding with boundary setting by parents and disciplinarians, as it has been employed as the most

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Understanding the Psychology of Russian Invasion of Ukraine from the Object Relations Perspective

Violence, War, Non-violence /

It has been deplorable watching so many Ukrainians suffering from this indescribable tragedy and pain out of nowhere. How can we understand Russia’s cruel act of invasion into Ukraine from a psychological perspective? If we understand the psychology of the development in our society and culture, we may find where the problem came from and

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