romantic love as protection from existential pain?

craroline asked: i’m not trying to be all emo on you guys, but i’ve been reading irvin d. yalom lately (founder/expert on existential psychotherapy).
the idea is that because we all know that we will die, ... [...]
APA Ethics Code Help?

Tiffanie asked: I have the following ethical situation to write about:
A client has confided many sensitive issues to you in the course of therapy. During the therapy, the client is injured in the workplace and ... [...]
social anxiety? medicine?

vegemite2006 asked: heres my life / what im going to say to my psychiatrist for our first psychotherapy session
When I see a stranger (more specifically a person) I tend to become nervous, anxious, and paranoid. ... [...]
Who are you more likely to agree with: Freud or Jung?

(Heretic’s a Nerd) asked: Sigmund Freud contended that humans were driven by unconscious sexual and aggressive drives and that religion was merely one of society’s tools for controlling these drives. Freud also noted parallels ... [...]
health help please?

cherryvalley2006 asked: ______is a less severe type of depression, dysthymia, involves long term, chronic symptoms that do not disable, but keep you from functioning at “full steam” or from feeling good. it is a chronic ... [...]
Disassociative Identity Disorder question(s)?

swarree asked: I just read that Herschel Walker wrote a book about his struggle with Disassociative Identity Disorder. I have some questions.
1) What is the difference between someone with this disorder, and the person ... [...]