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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 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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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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