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Narcissism
What Is Mature Love? Do You Have What It Takes?

Patricia H. Hawley Ph.D. on August 23, 2024

Does my narcissistic partner love me? This is an aching and important question. Mature love rests on four attitudes. Does your partner have them? Do you?

Does my narcissistic partner love me? This is an aching and important question. Mature love rests on four attitudes. Does your partner have them? Do you?

Narcissism
Is Narcissism at the Border of Sanity and Insanity?

Patricia H. Hawley Ph.D. on August 16, 2024

Psychoanalytic approaches view narcissism as a break from objective reality. It is associated with lying and manipulation. But is it a "lie" if they don't know what's real?

Psychoanalytic approaches view narcissism as a break from objective reality. It is associated with lying and manipulation. But is it a "lie" if they don't know what's real?

Fear
Three Lessons From Wire Mother

Patricia H. Hawley Ph.D. on June 23, 2018

A series of heart-wrenching experiments in the 1950s revealed the nature of parent-infant love and the dangers of providing only material resources.

A series of heart-wrenching experiments in the 1950s revealed the nature of parent-infant love and the dangers of providing only material resources.

Consumer Behavior
Keeping Women in Their Place

Patricia H. Hawley Ph.D. on October 2, 2012

Women have higher aspirations than ever, but still are encountering educational and professional barriers. Could this be due to implicit (unconscious) biases against women, even held by women themselves?

Women have higher aspirations than ever, but still are encountering educational and professional barriers. Could this be due to implicit (unconscious) biases against women, even held by women themselves?