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Your Personality Traits – What’s Behind Them

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 20:00:00 +0000

As such, your thoughts can only show you things that are meaningless. So, all the things you think that are meaningful are rather useless.

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What is Your Purpose?

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0000

What may work for one person may not work for another.” And we will then kindly tell you that it is all about context and when it comes to context, there is a universal clarity for you to have, without which, any goals you may have, have nothing at all to do with you living life with an aim, goal, or purpose [3].

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What do you know for sure?

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0000

To make matters worse, even in Science, it is said, “The great truths of today are the great lies of tomorrow.” In other words, what we think we have enough scientific evidence for today will, with certainty, end up being proven to be untrue. What a dilemma. What do we know for sure then?

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What is Life About?: The Enigma behind Personality Disorders

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 17:18:00 +0000

Our concept of what life is all about is so limiting that we all end up using defenses to navigate life. The use of such defenses are expressed in personality traits . We then make personality traits a “disease” to which we say there is no cure.

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What is Life About?: The Enigma behind Personality Disorders

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:00:00 +0000

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Why do your patients and clients suffer?

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000

We do not have a lack of information in the world but rather a lack of true understanding. In other words, knowledge is not power, rather, potential power, which can be harnessed only after a true understanding leading to full implementation.

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What’s “Wrong” With Those Borderlines?!

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:00:00 +0000

How do we then make sense of our feelings towards those with Borderline Personality Disorder? There are many ways to help us make sense of it all.

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Those with Borderline Personality Disorder: What They Need

Mardoche Sidor, MD and Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:52:00 +0000

There are several theories and explanatory models for Borderline Personality Disorder. There is much literature on all of them, though I am not going to mention them here. In this article and subsequent ones, I strive to help facilitate an understanding of those with Borderline Personality through the framework of the SWEET 7 Fundamental and Universal Needs, which I will introduce in the rest of this article.

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