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🛡️ Psychological Defenses

An examination of the mental armor we construct — denial, projection, rationalization — and how these protective mechanisms shape our relationships and inner lives.
Why Do I Do That?
by Joseph Burgo • 2012
Your defenses protect you from pain but keep you trapped. Learn to spot and loosen them.
4.15
1k+
🛡️ Defense Mechanisms🧠 Psychodynamic Self-Help💔 Shame And Self-Worth
Why Do I Do That? Summary
Why Do I Do That? 92%
Your defenses protect you from pain but keep you trapped. Learn to spot and loosen them.
by Joseph Burgo 2012
4.15
1k+ ratings
🛡️ Defense Mechanisms🧠 Psychodynamic Self-Help💔 Shame And Self-Worth
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
by Patricia Coughlin • 1996
Weeks, not years. A psychodynamic method that confronts defenses for lasting character change.
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48
🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy⏱️ Short-Term Therapy🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Summary
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy 91%
Weeks, not years. A psychodynamic method that confronts defenses for lasting character change.
by Patricia Coughlin 1996
4.46
48 ratings
🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy⏱️ Short-Term Therapy🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
Personality Development and Psychopathology
by Norman Cameron • 1985
Symptoms as compromise: how unconscious conflict and childhood shape personality and pathology.
4.40
15
🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory🧩 Psychopathology🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
Personality Development and Psychopathology Summary
Personality Development and Psychopathology 91%
Symptoms as compromise: how unconscious conflict and childhood shape personality and pathology.
by Norman Cameron 1985
4.40
15 ratings
🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory🧩 Psychopathology🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
Co-Creating Change
by Jon Frederickson • 2013
Target the real-time sequence of feeling, anxiety, and defense that produces every symptom.
4.59
193
🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy🛡️ Defense Mechanisms😰 Anxiety Regulation
Co-Creating Change Summary
Co-Creating Change 91%
Target the real-time sequence of feeling, anxiety, and defense that produces every symptom.
by Jon Frederickson 2013
4.59
193 ratings
🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy🛡️ Defense Mechanisms😰 Anxiety Regulation
Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism
by Otto F. Kernberg • 1975
Borderline is a stable pathology, not a transient phase. Splitting locks its contradictions apart.
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203
🧠 Personality Disorders👤 Object Relations🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism Summary
Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism 91%
Borderline is a stable pathology, not a transient phase. Splitting locks its contradictions apart.
by Otto F. Kernberg 1975
4.2
203 ratings
🧠 Personality Disorders👤 Object Relations🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
Reaching Through Resistance
by Allan Abbass • 2015
Symptoms are defenses against buried rage, guilt, and grief. The method to break through.
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85
🧠 Psychodynamic Therapy💔 Attachment Trauma🧍 Somatic Experiencing
Reaching Through Resistance Summary
Reaching Through Resistance 91%
Symptoms are defenses against buried rage, guilt, and grief. The method to break through.
by Allan Abbass 2015
4.38
85 ratings
🧠 Psychodynamic Therapy💔 Attachment Trauma🧍 Somatic Experiencing
Freud
by Ruth Snowden • 2010
Dreams, desire, and the unconscious: Freud's most enduring and unsettling ideas, made clear.
3.68
590
🛋️ Psychoanalysis🧠 The Unconscious💭 Dream Interpretation
Freud Summary
Freud 91%
Dreams, desire, and the unconscious: Freud's most enduring and unsettling ideas, made clear.
by Ruth Snowden 2010
3.68
590 ratings
🛋️ Psychoanalysis🧠 The Unconscious💭 Dream Interpretation
Rozdělené Self
by R.D. Laing • 1960
Schizophrenia begins as a solution: a last defense against the terror of not feeling real.
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7k+
🧠 Existential Psychology🩺 Clinical Psychiatry🌊 Existential Phenomenology
Rozdělené Self Summary
Rozdělené Self 91%
Schizophrenia begins as a solution: a last defense against the terror of not feeling real.
by R.D. Laing 1960
4.11
7k+ ratings
🧠 Existential Psychology🩺 Clinical Psychiatry🌊 Existential Phenomenology
Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology
by Eve Caligor • 2018
Use the therapy relationship to rebuild the fractured selves at the core of personality disorders.
4.79
38
🧠 Personality Disorders🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy👥 Object Relations
Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology Summary
Psychodynamic Therapy for Personality Pathology 91%
Use the therapy relationship to rebuild the fractured selves at the core of personality disorders.
by Eve Caligor 2018
4.79
38 ratings
🧠 Personality Disorders🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy👥 Object Relations
What Is Madness?
by Darian Leader • 2011
Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.
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531
🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis🌪️ Psychosis💭 Delusion
What Is Madness? Summary
What Is Madness? 90%
Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.
by Darian Leader 2011
4.14
531 ratings
🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis🌪️ Psychosis💭 Delusion
Learning from Experience
by Wilfred R. Bion • 1962
Thoughts come first. An apparatus to think them has to be built, and it requires another mind.
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135
🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory🍼 Object Relations🌡️ Affect Regulation
Learning from Experience Summary
Learning from Experience 90%
Thoughts come first. An apparatus to think them has to be built, and it requires another mind.
by Wilfred R. Bion 1962
4.19
135 ratings
🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory🍼 Object Relations🌡️ Affect Regulation
The Examined Life
by Stephen Grosz • 2012
Our jokes, lies, and self-sabotage all speak. A psychoanalyst shows what they're actually saying.
3.95
18k+
🛋️ Modern Psychoanalysis📋 Clinical Case Studies🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
The Examined Life Summary
The Examined Life 90%
Our jokes, lies, and self-sabotage all speak. A psychoanalyst shows what they're actually saying.
by Stephen Grosz 2012
3.95
18k+ ratings
🛋️ Modern Psychoanalysis📋 Clinical Case Studies🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
What Is Psychotherapy?
by The School of Life • 2019
Your flaws are not character defects but childhood survival strategies. How therapy rewrites them.
4.00
342
🧘 Emotional Healing🧒 Childhood Trauma🔗 Attachment Theory
What Is Psychotherapy? Summary
What Is Psychotherapy? 90%
Your flaws are not character defects but childhood survival strategies. How therapy rewrites them.
by The School of Life 2019
4.00
342 ratings
🧘 Emotional Healing🧒 Childhood Trauma🔗 Attachment Theory
The 5 Personality Patterns
by Steven Kessler • 2015
Five survival patterns from childhood live in your body: a map for outgrowing each one.
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458
🧒 Developmental Psychology🧘 Body Psychotherapy🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
The 5 Personality Patterns Summary
The 5 Personality Patterns 90%
Five survival patterns from childhood live in your body: a map for outgrowing each one.
by Steven Kessler 2015
4.26
458 ratings
🧒 Developmental Psychology🧘 Body Psychotherapy🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
Honoring the Self
by Nathaniel Branden • 1983
Why success feels hollow: real confidence is built on a daily choice, not on achievement.
4.20
737
🪞 Internal Validation🌱 Authentic Self🧠 Conscious Choice
Honoring the Self Summary
Honoring the Self 90%
Why success feels hollow: real confidence is built on a daily choice, not on achievement.
by Nathaniel Branden 1983
4.20
737 ratings
🪞 Internal Validation🌱 Authentic Self🧠 Conscious Choice
L'Estime de Soi
by Christophe André • 1998
Self-esteem is a balance of three forces. One neglected, it breaks; learn the real repair manual.
3.80
479
💎 Self-Esteem🤗 Self-Acceptance🧠 Self-Awareness
L'Estime de Soi Summary
L'Estime de Soi 90%
Self-esteem is a balance of three forces. One neglected, it breaks; learn the real repair manual.
by Christophe André 1998
3.80
479 ratings
💎 Self-Esteem🤗 Self-Acceptance🧠 Self-Awareness
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
by Sigmund Freud • 1917
Your forgotten names and midnight visions are not mistakes. They are messages from a hidden mind.
3.79
12k+
📜 Freudian Psychology🕳️ Unconscious Mind🛌 Dream Interpretation
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Summary
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis 90%
Your forgotten names and midnight visions are not mistakes. They are messages from a hidden mind.
by Sigmund Freud 1917
3.79
12k+ ratings
📜 Freudian Psychology🕳️ Unconscious Mind🛌 Dream Interpretation
Feminine Psychology (Norton Library
by Karen Horney • 1967
Neurosis is the price of abandoning who you are for who you think you should be.
3.68
423
🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory🧠 Neo-Freudian Thought♀️ Feminist Psychology
Feminine Psychology (Norton Library Summary
Feminine Psychology (Norton Library 90%
Neurosis is the price of abandoning who you are for who you think you should be.
by Karen Horney 1967
3.68
423 ratings
🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory🧠 Neo-Freudian Thought♀️ Feminist Psychology
The Ego and the Id
by Sigmund Freud • 1923
The self is not the boss. It's the exhausted middleman between animal hunger and moral punishment.
3.81
13k+
🛋️ Psychoanalysis🌊 Unconscious Processes🔥 Drive Theory
The Ego and the Id Summary
The Ego and the Id 90%
The self is not the boss. It's the exhausted middleman between animal hunger and moral punishment.
by Sigmund Freud 1923
3.81
13k+ ratings
🛋️ Psychoanalysis🌊 Unconscious Processes🔥 Drive Theory
Shame
by Joseph Burgo • 2018
Stop hiding from shame. Use it. The step-by-step path to self-esteem that actually holds up.
3.88
461
🔥 Shame And Guilt🧒 Early Childhood Trauma🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
Shame Summary
Shame 90%
Stop hiding from shame. Use it. The step-by-step path to self-esteem that actually holds up.
by Joseph Burgo 2018
3.88
461 ratings
🔥 Shame And Guilt🧒 Early Childhood Trauma🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
Psicotrampas
by Giorgio Nardone • 2013
Your best coping strategy is likely your worst enemy. The real fix is paradoxical.
3.44
453
🎯 Strategic Therapy🧠 Cognitive Distortions🔄 Paradoxical Interventions
Psicotrampas Summary
Psicotrampas 90%
Your best coping strategy is likely your worst enemy. The real fix is paradoxical.
by Giorgio Nardone 2013
3.44
453 ratings
🎯 Strategic Therapy🧠 Cognitive Distortions🔄 Paradoxical Interventions
Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice
by Glen O. Gabbard • 1990
The psychiatry textbook that builds treatment from unconscious patterns, not symptom checklists.
4.32
354
🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy📋 Psychodynamic Formulation👶 Object Relations
Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice Summary
Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice 90%
The psychiatry textbook that builds treatment from unconscious patterns, not symptom checklists.
by Glen O. Gabbard 1990
4.32
354 ratings
🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy📋 Psychodynamic Formulation👶 Object Relations
Missing Out
by Adam Phillips • 2012
Your regrets are not ghosts; they are the hidden architecture of your personality.
3.47
3k+
📝 Psychoanalytic Essays📚 Literary Psychology💭 Regret And Identity
Missing Out Summary
Missing Out 90%
Your regrets are not ghosts; they are the hidden architecture of your personality.
by Adam Phillips 2012
3.47
3k+ ratings
📝 Psychoanalytic Essays📚 Literary Psychology💭 Regret And Identity
The Shadow of the Object
by Christopher Bollas • 1987
The knowledge formed before you had words shapes every adult relationship and mood.
4.51
196
🧸 Object Relations Theory🛋️ Clinical Psychoanalysis👶 Early Infant Experience
The Shadow of the Object Summary
The Shadow of the Object 90%
The knowledge formed before you had words shapes every adult relationship and mood.
by Christopher Bollas 1987
4.51
196 ratings
🧸 Object Relations Theory🛋️ Clinical Psychoanalysis👶 Early Infant Experience
The Drama of the Gifted Child
by Alice Miller • 1979
Depression and grandiosity share a root: the child who learned her feelings were inconvenient.
4.05
31k+
🧸 Childhood Trauma🪞 Parental Narcissism🔒 Emotional Repression
The Drama of the Gifted Child Summary
The Drama of the Gifted Child 90%
Depression and grandiosity share a root: the child who learned her feelings were inconvenient.
by Alice Miller 1979
4.05
31k+ ratings
🧸 Childhood Trauma🪞 Parental Narcissism🔒 Emotional Repression
Meeting the Shadow
by Connie Zweig • 1991
You cut off half of who you are in childhood. Becoming whole means taking it back.
4.30
2k+
🧠 Jungian Psychology🌑 Shadow Work🔒 Emotional Repression
Meeting the Shadow Summary
Meeting the Shadow 89%
You cut off half of who you are in childhood. Becoming whole means taking it back.
by Connie Zweig 1991
4.30
2k+ ratings
🧠 Jungian Psychology🌑 Shadow Work🔒 Emotional Repression
It’s Not Always Depression
by Hilary Jacobs Hendel • 2018
Move through anxiety and defenses to feel core emotions and reach your calm, authentic self.
4.22
3k+
🧘 Emotional Wellness🧠 Somatic Therapy🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
It’s Not Always Depression Summary
It’s Not Always Depression 89%
Move through anxiety and defenses to feel core emotions and reach your calm, authentic self.
by Hilary Jacobs Hendel 2018
4.22
3k+ ratings
🧘 Emotional Wellness🧠 Somatic Therapy🛡️ Defense Mechanisms
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
by Bruce Fink • 1997
The patient's will doesn't drive therapy; the analyst's desire does.
4.37
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🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis🩺 Psychoanalytic Practice🇫🇷 French Psychoanalysis
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis Summary
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis 89%
The patient's will doesn't drive therapy; the analyst's desire does.
by Bruce Fink 1997
4.37
828 ratings
🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis🩺 Psychoanalytic Practice🇫🇷 French Psychoanalysis
Freud
by Marc Pepiol • 2015
Reason rides in the back seat. Freud's tour of the real drivers: hidden desire, guilt, and dreams.
3.97
250
🛋️ Psychoanalysis🧠 Unconscious Mind🌙 Dream Interpretation
Freud Summary
Freud 89%
Reason rides in the back seat. Freud's tour of the real drivers: hidden desire, guilt, and dreams.
by Marc Pepiol 2015
3.97
250 ratings
🛋️ Psychoanalysis🧠 Unconscious Mind🌙 Dream Interpretation
Self-Analysis
by Karen Horney • 1942
How to analyze yourself with the same tools a psychoanalyst uses, starting with free association.
4.08
939
🧠 Neo-Freudian Thought🛋️ Psychodynamic Self-Help📖 Self-Guided Therapy
Self-Analysis Summary
Self-Analysis 89%
How to analyze yourself with the same tools a psychoanalyst uses, starting with free association.
by Karen Horney 1942
4.08
939 ratings
🧠 Neo-Freudian Thought🛋️ Psychodynamic Self-Help📖 Self-Guided Therapy
Why Do I Keep Doing This?
by Kati Morton • 2025
The habits keeping you stuck began as childhood armor. A therapist's guide to putting them down.
3.69
347
🌀 Self-Sabotage🎯 Perfectionism Recovery🙇 People Pleasing
Why Do I Keep Doing This? Summary
Why Do I Keep Doing This? 89%
The habits keeping you stuck began as childhood armor. A therapist's guide to putting them down.
by Kati Morton 2025
3.69
347 ratings
🌀 Self-Sabotage🎯 Perfectionism Recovery🙇 People Pleasing
The Lies We Tell Ourselves
by Jon Frederickson • 2017
The armor you built to survive became the cage you live in now.
3.94
1k+
🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy🌅 Existential Psychology🎭 Self-Deception
The Lies We Tell Ourselves Summary
The Lies We Tell Ourselves 89%
The armor you built to survive became the cage you live in now.
by Jon Frederickson 2017
3.94
1k+ ratings
🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy🌅 Existential Psychology🎭 Self-Deception
The Psychology of Love
by Sigmund Freud • 2006
Your love life is a childhood script, buried in the unconscious and acted out in symptoms.
3.33
869
🧠 Psychoanalytic Theory📋 Case Studies💭 Dream Interpretation
The Psychology of Love Summary
The Psychology of Love 89%
Your love life is a childhood script, buried in the unconscious and acted out in symptoms.
by Sigmund Freud 2006
3.33
869 ratings
🧠 Psychoanalytic Theory📋 Case Studies💭 Dream Interpretation
The Shadow Effect
by Deepak Chopra • 2010
The traits you suppress are secretly running your life. A practice to reclaim their power.
3.88
4k+
🌑 Shadow Work🧠 Jungian Psychology🙏 Spiritual Psychology
The Shadow Effect Summary
The Shadow Effect 89%
The traits you suppress are secretly running your life. A practice to reclaim their power.
by Deepak Chopra 2010
3.88
4k+ ratings
🌑 Shadow Work🧠 Jungian Psychology🙏 Spiritual Psychology
Life Lessons From Freud
by Brett Kahr • 2013
Freud's sharpest ideas for daily life: what your dreams, jokes, and childhood still control.
3.50
476
🛋️ Psychoanalysis🗣️ Talk Therapy🧠 Unconscious Mind
Life Lessons From Freud Summary
Life Lessons From Freud 89%
Freud's sharpest ideas for daily life: what your dreams, jokes, and childhood still control.
by Brett Kahr 2013
3.50
476 ratings
🛋️ Psychoanalysis🗣️ Talk Therapy🧠 Unconscious Mind
On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored
by Phillips • 1993
What you want hides inside what stops you: essays on kissing, worry, and the unexamined.
3.74
825
🧠 Psychoanalytic Theory🛋️ Everyday Psychoanalysis👶 British Object Relations
On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored Summary
On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored 89%
What you want hides inside what stops you: essays on kissing, worry, and the unexamined.
by Phillips 1993
3.74
825 ratings
🧠 Psychoanalytic Theory🛋️ Everyday Psychoanalysis👶 British Object Relations
Mind Manipulation
by Haha Lung • 2001
Five emotions every manipulator exploits: a ninja playbook for spotting and shutting them down.
3.69
310
🛡️ Mental Self-Defense⚔️ Psychological Warfare🎭 Emotional Manipulation
Mind Manipulation Summary
Mind Manipulation 89%
Five emotions every manipulator exploits: a ninja playbook for spotting and shutting them down.
by Haha Lung 2001
3.69
310 ratings
🛡️ Mental Self-Defense⚔️ Psychological Warfare🎭 Emotional Manipulation
A Mind of Its Own
by Cordelia Fine • 2005
Your brain is a self-serving lawyer, not an impartial scientist. The evidence is damning.
3.86
3k+
🧠 Cognitive Biases🤥 Self-Deception⚖️ Moral Psychology
A Mind of Its Own Summary
A Mind of Its Own 89%
Your brain is a self-serving lawyer, not an impartial scientist. The evidence is damning.
by Cordelia Fine 2005
3.86
3k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Biases🤥 Self-Deception⚖️ Moral Psychology
The Primitive Edge of Experience
by Thomas H. Ogden • 1989
Older than thought, a sensory psychological mode forms the self. Its isolation makes the mind rigid.
4.41
105
🧩 Object Relations🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory🌫️ Primitive Mental States
The Primitive Edge of Experience Summary
The Primitive Edge of Experience 89%
Older than thought, a sensory psychological mode forms the self. Its isolation makes the mind rigid.
by Thomas H. Ogden 1989
4.41
105 ratings
🧩 Object Relations🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory🌫️ Primitive Mental States
Undervalued Self
by Elaine N. Aron • 2009
Your inner critic is a ranking machine. Rebalance it toward connection and self-doubt dissolves.
3.94
448
🪞 Self-Worth Psychology🛡️ Defense Mechanisms🧸 Healing Childhood Wounds
Undervalued Self Summary
Undervalued Self 89%
Your inner critic is a ranking machine. Rebalance it toward connection and self-doubt dissolves.
by Elaine N. Aron 2009
3.94
448 ratings
🪞 Self-Worth Psychology🛡️ Defense Mechanisms🧸 Healing Childhood Wounds
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
by Carol Tavris • 2007
Why smart people double down on bad decisions, rewrite history, and refuse to admit error.
4.04
29k+
🧠 Cognitive Dissonance🎭 Self-Deception🔄 Motivated Reasoning
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) Summary
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) 89%
Why smart people double down on bad decisions, rewrite history, and refuse to admit error.
by Carol Tavris 2007
4.04
29k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Dissonance🎭 Self-Deception🔄 Motivated Reasoning
The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler
by Alfred Adler • 1920
A felt sense of inferiority powers all striving. The healthy path channels it into contribution.
4.06
782
🧠 Psychodynamic Theory🏥 Clinical Psychology🌱 Humanistic Psychology
The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler Summary
The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler 89%
A felt sense of inferiority powers all striving. The healthy path channels it into contribution.
by Alfred Adler 1920
4.06
782 ratings
🧠 Psychodynamic Theory🏥 Clinical Psychology🌱 Humanistic Psychology
The Body Remembers
by Babette Rothschild • 2000
Trauma therapy without a brake just retraumatizes. A guide to safety, the body, and the alliance.
4.28
3k+
🧠 Trauma Treatment🫂 Therapeutic Alliance🧘 Somatic Psychology
The Body Remembers Summary
The Body Remembers 89%
Trauma therapy without a brake just retraumatizes. A guide to safety, the body, and the alliance.
by Babette Rothschild 2000
4.28
3k+ ratings
🧠 Trauma Treatment🫂 Therapeutic Alliance🧘 Somatic Psychology
People of the Lie
by M. Scott Peck • 1983
Evil wears a Sunday suit. It refuses to feel guilt and makes children pay instead.
3.99
9k+
🧠 Moral Psychology📋 Psychiatric Case Studies🎭 Self-Deception
People of the Lie Summary
People of the Lie 89%
Evil wears a Sunday suit. It refuses to feel guilt and makes children pay instead.
by M. Scott Peck 1983
3.99
9k+ ratings
🧠 Moral Psychology📋 Psychiatric Case Studies🎭 Self-Deception
Violence of Mind
by Varg Freeborn • 2018
Define the mission first. Without it, self-defense training is just expensive roleplay.
4.27
483
🔍 Situational Awareness⚖️ Self-Defense Law🧠 Mental Conditioning
Violence of Mind Summary
Violence of Mind 89%
Define the mission first. Without it, self-defense training is just expensive roleplay.
by Varg Freeborn 2018
4.27
483 ratings
🔍 Situational Awareness⚖️ Self-Defense Law🧠 Mental Conditioning
Manipulation and Dark Psychology
by Jonathan Mind • 2019
Four dark personalities, their covert tactics, and the mental armor that stops them cold.
3.88
83
🕶️ Dark Psychology🛡️ Manipulation Defense💔 Toxic Relationships
Manipulation and Dark Psychology Summary
Manipulation and Dark Psychology 89%
Four dark personalities, their covert tactics, and the mental armor that stops them cold.
by Jonathan Mind 2019
3.88
83 ratings
🕶️ Dark Psychology🛡️ Manipulation Defense💔 Toxic Relationships
High Conflict People in Legal Disputes
by Bill Eddy • 2005
The personality disorders that turn simple disputes into litigation wars, and how to handle them.
4.39
124
🧠 Personality Disorders🤝 Conflict Resolution😤 Difficult People
High Conflict People in Legal Disputes Summary
High Conflict People in Legal Disputes 89%
The personality disorders that turn simple disputes into litigation wars, and how to handle them.
by Bill Eddy 2005
4.39
124 ratings
🧠 Personality Disorders🤝 Conflict Resolution😤 Difficult People
Psicología Oscura
by Victor Sykes • 2019
Love bombing, gaslighting, the long con: how to spot covert manipulation and shield yourself.
3.40
169
🕶️ Dark Psychology🥷 Covert Manipulation🎭 Emotional Manipulation
Psicología Oscura Summary
Psicología Oscura 89%
Love bombing, gaslighting, the long con: how to spot covert manipulation and shield yourself.
by Victor Sykes 2019
3.40
169 ratings
🕶️ Dark Psychology🥷 Covert Manipulation🎭 Emotional Manipulation
Psychosomatic Families
by Salvador Minuchin • 1978
Anorexia is a family problem. Treated as one, the cure rate reaches 86%.
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29
🏥 Family Systems Therapy🍽️ Eating Disorders🧬 Psychosomatic Medicine
Psychosomatic Families Summary
Psychosomatic Families 89%
Anorexia is a family problem. Treated as one, the cure rate reaches 86%.
by Salvador Minuchin 1978
4.24
29 ratings
🏥 Family Systems Therapy🍽️ Eating Disorders🧬 Psychosomatic Medicine
Mentalizing in Clinical Practice
by Jon G. Allen • 2008
All effective therapy rests on a single trainable capacity: reading the mind behind behavior.
4.31
39
🧸 Attachment Theory🧠 Social Cognition🌊 Affect Regulation
Mentalizing in Clinical Practice Summary
Mentalizing in Clinical Practice 89%
All effective therapy rests on a single trainable capacity: reading the mind behind behavior.
by Jon G. Allen 2008
4.31
39 ratings
🧸 Attachment Theory🧠 Social Cognition🌊 Affect Regulation
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