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• Sandra Says Column
• PTSD: The Mind Body Connection Column
• Trait Examination Column

• EMDR and The Metaphor of Transformation
  

  What the butterfly knows is transformation and the metaphor they provide is one that survivors can use to see their own transforming... 

• Managing Anxiety Through The Butterfly Method
  

  Pathological Love Relationships leave an aftermath of problems of which the most bothersome are all the anxiety symptoms.... 

• DSM 5 Personality and Personality Disorders Sneak Peek
  

  The American Psychiatric Association has released a “sneak peek” of changes to the personality and personality... 

• What Happens In An EMDR Session?
  

  Do you ever have present day experiences that trigger  old, extremely distressing memories as if they were stuck in your... 

• Vulnerability and Other Prey of Psychopaths
  

  Help protect yourself from victimization by psychopaths. by Marisa Mauro, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist at the California... 

• Beginning at the Beginning: Personality Formation and Dysfunction
  

  Dr. Thedore Millon, The Pioneer of Personality Science If Freud was the ‘Father’ of Psychoanalysis, Dr. Theodore Millon... 

• Where Brain Biology Begins and Ends
  

  Dr. Kent Kiehl, The Mind Research Lab Survivors of psychopaths have waited a long time to find out ‘officially’... 

• The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists
  

  by: Eleanor Payson, ACSW Interview with Eleanor Payson, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and author of ‘The Wizard of... 

• Experts Speak Out
  

  The Institute will be interviewing some of the great influences in the field of pathology. Stay tuned for interviews with: Dr.... 

• Criminal Record Searches: “No Results” May Not Mean Their Records Are Clean
  

  by Dixie Lang At some point in a relationship with a pathological, a person stops and asks themselves a very basic question:... 

• Lying in Family Court
  

  by Bill Eddy, Esquire, L.C.S.W. When I became a family law attorney/mediator after a dozen years as a therapist, one of... 

• How Personality Disorders Drive Family Court Litigation – Part 3
  

  by Bill Eddy, Esquire, L.C.S.W. How Family Court Fits Personality Disorders Family Court is perfectly suited to the fantasies... 

• How Personality Disorders Drive Family Court Litigation – Part 2
  

  Personality Disorders Appearing in Family Court by Bill Eddy, Esquire, L.C.S.W. Probably the most prevalent personality disorder... 

• How Personality Disorders Drive Family Court Litigation – Part 1
  

  by Bill Eddy, Esquire, L.C.S.W. I was first exposed to the concept of personality disorders in 1980 when I was in training... 

• People Perish for Lack of Knowledge
  

  Excerpt: by Charles Montcrief – Times Up! Blog These words from Hosea 4:6 were originally addressed to a people in... 

• When Getting Beaten by Your Husband is a Pre-Existing Condition
  

  Excerpt: With the White House zeroing in on the insurance-industry practice of discriminating against clients based on pre-existing... 

• Children and Stress: The New Science on Chronically Harsh and Conflict-ridden Households
  

  You work and work to provide for your kids, and that puts you under a lot of stress. Job insecurity, maybe some mortgage... 

• Psych Reports in Child Custody Cases
  

  Use of the MMPI-2 in Child Custody Evaluations Involving Battered Women: What Does Psychological Research Tell Us? by Nancy... 

• Love Lessons: the Moving Tale of a Mother Who Tried to Love a RAD Child from Russia – Part III
  

  Excerpt from the Foreward from “Love Lessons,” a Soon-to-be-Published Book Part III – October 2009 The... 

• Love Lessons: the Moving Tale of a Mother Who Tried to Love a RAD Child from Russia – Part II
  

  Excerpt from the Foreward from “Love Lessons,” a Soon-to-be-Published Book Part II – September 2009 What... 

• Love Lessons: the Moving Tale of a Mother Who Tried to Love a RAD Child from Russia – Part I
  

  Excerpt from the Foreward from “Love Lessons,” a Soon-to-be-Published Book Part I – August 2009 A mother’s... 

• Behavior Counts: Helping Children Cope With a Pathological Parent
  

  by Rebecca Potter, M.S., LMHC “To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order. To put the... 

• Parental Challenges
  

  Love Lessons: the Moving Tale of a Mother Who Tried to Love a RAD Child from Russia Excerpt from the Foreward from “Love... 

• Co-Parenting with a Pathological
  

  The perils and pitfalls of co-parenting with a pathological. Coming soon will be a private section of the magazine for discrete... 

See also: Petty Tyrants Column

• Opportunities to deal with sociopaths in American politics
  

  by Gene Messick December 11, 2008 at 14:51:24 Frequent arrest of Senators and Congressmen, and now arrest of the Illinois... 

• Illinois gov unanimously convicted
  

  ‘He failed the test of character,’ Illinois state senator says By CHRISTOPHER WILLS, Associated Press Writer SPRINGFIELD,... 

• The Case for Giving Eli Lilly the Corporate Death Penalty
  

  By Bruce E. Levine Excerpt: At this point, the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is basically a public menace. Eli Lilly &... 

• Madoff pleads guilty and goes to jail in handcuffs
  

  By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writers Excerpt: Saying he was “deeply sorry and ashamed,”... 

• But Enough About You…
  

  But Enough About You …What is narcissistic personality disorder, and why does everyone seem to have it? By Emily Yoffe... 

• Evangelist Tony Alamo convicted of child sex crimes
  

  July 24, 6:10 PM Excerpt: Remember Tony Alamo? He’s the founder of Arkansas’ Alamo Christian Ministries and,... 

• Dimitri The Lover’s History Of Sexual Assault, Weapons Stockpiling And Psychiatric Evaluations
  

  by Moe, 5:40 PM on Fri Jun 27 2008 Excerpt: Oh god, here goes. You know how we sort of stopped wanting to hear about Paul... 

• FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List – Semion Mogilevich
  

  Excerpt: “A Ukrainian businessman charged with more than 40 counts of racketeering, wire fraud, mail fraud, money... 

• Review of New Movie Prince of the City
  

  Excerpt: EDITOR’S NOTE: Rarely do readers get the real story on cops and courts. When the public focuses on corruption... 

• Disgraced Miss. Judge Reports to Federal Prison
  

  Excerpt: by Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press Writer Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press Writer – Mon Jan 4, 9:18 pm ET JACKSON,... 

• Former George W. Bush Attorney Arrested
  

  Excerpt: A former attorney to President George W. Bush was arrested Wednesday at his Connecticut home and accused of trying... 

• John Michael Farren, Ex-Bush Lawyer, Tried To Kill Wife: Connecticut Police
  

  Excerpt: NEW HAVEN, Conn. — An attorney who worked in both Bush administrations was charged Thursday with trying to kill... 

• Corporate Psychopaths
  

  Excerpt: Is your boss manipulative? Intimidating? Totally lacking in remorse? Yet superficially charming? Then you could... 

• Psychopaths Among Us
  

  Excerpt: Is your boss manipulative? Intimidating? Totally lacking in remorse? Yet superficially charming? Then you could... 

• Husband’s Secret Lives
  

  Excerpt: They were a “Ken and Barbie” couple—seemingly perfect to friends and family. When Barbra met her... 

• Teacher Believed to Be Belgium’s Latest Serial Killer
  

  Excerpt: A Belgian teacher has emerged as the country’s latest serial killer, police fear, after he confessed to three... 

• Scots Internet Rat Used Dating Site to Prey on Terrified Women Across the World
  

  Excerpt: By Karen Bale FIVE terrorized women from different sides of the world have revealed how they fell victim to a Scots... 

• Convicted Serial Killer Won on ‘Dating Game’
  

  Excerpt: by Gabriel Falcon Before he was a convicted serial killer, Rodney Alcala was a winning bachelor on “The Dating... 

• Texas Man Faked Way Into Army
  

  Excerpt: A Texas man with no military experience tricked the Army into letting him enter a reserve unit as a noncommissioned... 

• New Evidence in Psychopath Case
  

  Excerpt: A BBC Scotland investigation has uncovered new evidence about the case of Peter Manuel, one of Scotland’s... 

• Psychopathy in the Priesthood
  

  Excerpt: Leslie Lothstein has seen them all: priests sexually active with adult men, others with adult women, others with... 

• Workplace Bullying – One Woman’s Story
  

  by Donna Reynolds Excerpt: From then on my life became a living hell. My supervisor yelled and swore at me, often in front... 

• Using the Performing Arts to Prevent Domestic Violence
  

  Excerpt: The founders of Fix the Hurt, Linda and John King, are dedicated to using the performing arts, education and training... 

• Successful and Unsuccessful Psychopaths: A Neurobiological Model
  

  by Yu Gao, Ph.D., and Adrian Raine, D. Phil. Despite increasing interest in psychopathy research, surprisingly little is... 

• PTSD Study: Kids also Vulnerable to Stress, Depression
  

  Popular wisdom has long held that young children survive traumatic events better than adults do, in part because they suffer... 

• EMDR and the Lessons from Neuroscience Research
  

  Excerpt from a research paper written by Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D.: Research in laboratories devoted to elucidating human... 

• Suffering Souls: The Search for the Roots of Psychopathy.
  

  Excerpt from The New Yorker website: The Western New Mexico Correctional Facility sits in high-desert country about seventy... 

• The Invisible Epidemic: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Memory and the Brain
  

  Excerpt from The Doctor Will See You Now website: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is something of an invisible epidemic.... 

• Some People Really Feel Your Pain
  

  Excerpt from Telegraph.co.uk: Researchers found that around one in three people actually feel physical discomfort when... 

• Brain Activity Exposes Those Who Break Promises
  

  Excerpt from Science Daily: Scientists from the University of Zurich have discovered the physiological mechanisms in the... 

• Suffering Souls – The Search for the Roots of Psychopathy
  

  Excerpt from The New Yorker: The Western New Mexico Correctional Facility sits in high-desert country about seventy miles... 

• Psychopaths’ Brains Wired to Seek Rewards
  

  Excerpt from Science Daily: The brains of psychopaths appear to be wired to keep seeking a reward at any cost, new research... 

• A Neuroscientist Uncovers a Dark Secret
  

  Excerpt from NPR: The criminal brain has always held a fascination for James Fallon. For nearly 20 years, the neuroscientist... 

• The Lasting Effects of Psychological Trauma on Memory and the Hippocampus
  

  Excerpt from a research paper written by J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.: The invisible epidemic of childhood abuse and other psychological... 

See also:

• Sandra Says Column
• PTSD: The Mind Body Connection Column
• Trait Examination Column
• EMDR and NLP Column

• Tips for a Healthier, Happier Holiday
  

  Stop idealizing–you are who you are, it is what it is. If your family isn’t perfect, they certainly WON’T... 

• Reality Bytes: A Survivor’s Journey – Part 6
  

  Part 6 Right at the end of our court hearing, the Psychopath did one of his infamous maneuvers. He slipped one by an entire... 

• Reality Bytes: A Survivor’s Journey – Part 5
  

  Part 5 Why in God’s name would you want to date so soon after being with a dangerous man??? That was the thought crossing... 

• Reality Bytes: A Survivor’s Journey – Part 4
  

  Part 4 It was a rainbow day perfect day. I squinted at the sun as it peaked through the dark feathered clouds. I hoped... 

• Reality Bytes: A Survivor’s Journey – Part 3
  

  Part 3 Hello dear friends, I was thinking about the early days and how things began with me and the psychopath. I love... 

• Reality Bytes: A Survivor’s Journey – Part 2
  

  Part 2 My friends so many things have happened since my first column.  The wreckage of the aftermath has gained some... 

• Reality Bytes: A Survivor’s Journey – Part 1
  

  Part 1 It’s 2:30AM on a Thursday night as I sit here developing my first message to you, dear reader. I am not accustomed... 

• Writing for Happiness and Healing
  

  Part II By Lynn Ellyn Robinson Ira Progoff, the original journal guru from the 1960s, recommended journaling on notebook... 

• Male Survivors
  

  by: Michaela St. James The Institute is frequently asked ‘What about the men? What about male survivors? Are females... 

• Red Flag Warnings
  

  by Grace Belafonte, Life Coach RED FLAG WARNINGS are clues that emotional, physical, financial, spiritual, and/or sexual... 

• Survival Tips
  

  by Grace Belafonte, Life Coach Living in the aftermath phase of a pathological relationship can be a grueling experience.... 

• Relapse Prevention Tips
  

  by Grace Belafonte, Life Coach The only thing worse than being in the aftermath of a pathological relationship is getting... 

• Tips for Getting Started
  

  Tips for Getting Started by Carol A. Lee Mooney, M.S., ICCJP I had the pleasure of attending The Institute’s first therapist... 

• Teaching About Pathology
  

  Teaching About Pathology to Your Community by Carol A. Lee Mooney, M.S., ICCJP As a counselor/teacher for the adult probation...