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How We Talk About Narcissism Misses the Ways It Can Be Essential

Posted on in NYC Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

Despite social media’s fixation on narcissists, narcissism isn’t all bad If you’re going by therapists and other mental health influencers on TikTok, we are experiencing a wave of narcissism. In these posts, suggesting that someone is a “narc” or a narcissist is often a stand-in for all manner of unpleasant behaviors and character traits, fewRead more

4 Things Polyamorous Couples Can Teach Monogamous Couples About Sex

Posted on in Couples Therapy and Relationships, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy

Polyamorous couples organize their sex lives in ways that could be informative to monogamous couples  Monogamy is a reasonable enough organization of relationships and is probably best for most couples. However, a truly healthy marital relationship ought to be built on an understanding that, as necessary as it may be, monogamy is nonetheless a bitRead more

What Monogamous Couples Can Learn From Polyamorous Couples: Founder and Clinical Director Matt Lundquist in MindBodyGreen

Posted on in Couples Therapy and Relationships, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

Polyamory requires partners to navigate their relationships with more consideration and awareness than monogamous couples. Monogamous couples have the benefit of an already determined relationship structure. While polyamory is not for every couple (nor is it for most couples), this thoughtfulness could teach monogamous couples a thing or two about how to tend to theirRead more

Conflicts About Pets Often Symbolize Deeper Relationship Issues for Couples: Director of Supervision and Training Kelly Scott in The Wildest

Posted on in Couples Therapy and Relationships, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

If you’re fighting with your partner over your cats getting along or whether the dog can be in the bedroom during sex, is the conflict really about the pet(s)? Often it’s not. Our Director of Supervision and Training Kelly Scott recently spoke to The Wildest in three articles that break down how couples’ arguments overRead more

We Nearly Blamed Rose: Why the “Other Woman” Trope Is So Persistent

Posted on in Couples Therapy and Relationships, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Therapy for anxiety

One of the biggest social media frenzies of conspiracy theorizing and innuendo in recent memory was the furor around the whereabouts and well-being of Kate Middleton. After Kate’s announcement of her cancer diagnosis, there should be a moment of reflection, including how and why Lady Rose Hanbury was dragged into the fervor by being incorrectlyRead more

Miscarriages Are Far Too Isolating: We Need to Talk About Them More

Posted on in NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Tribeca Maternity

How we talk about pregnancy leaves women and their families alone with the experience of miscarriage A miscarriage is a complicated loss that is very often silenced by how we talk—or don’t talk—about pregnancy. There is a collective rule to not share pregnancy news until after about twelve weeks when the risk of a miscarriageRead more

Apologies Aren’t Always Nice (Part 2): How to Do Them More Thoughtfully (Hint: Slow Down)

Posted on in Couples Therapy and Relationships, NYC Therapy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy

Before apologizing, ask yourself: Am I expecting the hurt person to forgive me immediately? In the previous part of this two-part series, I laid out how some forms of apologizing can put pressure on the hurt party to make the transgressor feel better as soon as possible. But people who struggle with tolerating the discomfortRead more

Having Needs Is Human: A Therapist Grapples With Deceptions, Estrangements, and the Denial of Needs in ‘Maestro’

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“I don’t need!”: Having needs is an essential part of being human I can’t stop thinking about a scene from Maestro in which Carey Mulligan’s Felicia Montealegre addresses her husband’s deceptions and estrangements. She says, “It’s just so ironic; I would look at everyone—even my own children—with such pity because of their longing for hisRead more

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