We have such strong inner drives to achieve harmony and avoid conflict that cognitive dissonance often has a powerful influence on our beliefs and behaviors. I am, ashamedly, one of those people who ...

So you're not a "10" in every which way. But you're probably pretty spectacular in some way, and definitely good enough in most areas of life. If ever there were a time to stop beating yourself up for ...

In Part 1 of this two-part post, we looked at how psychoanalyst Harold Searles thought about how we drive each other crazy. On one hand, he describes many pathological reasons for doing so, in his ...