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Navigating an Increasingly Violent World

November 3, 2023Abuse, Aggression, Covert-Aggression, Empowerment, Integrity, Love, Narcissism, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Relationships, Responsibility, Social Issues, Spiritualityassertiveness, benign confrontation, character, love, relationships, self-love, society, violenceDr. Simon

We all have the power to make this a less violent world. The answer lies in character.

Laws Can’t Fix What Only Character Can

June 1, 2022Abuse, Aggression, conscience, Depression, Entitlement, Integrity, Mental Health, Narcissism, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Relationships, Responsibility, Social Issuesabuse, character, culture, laws, violenceDr. Simon

What Laws Can’t Fix Laws never permanently fix social problems. And perhaps the proof lies in the numbers. There are millions of laws on the books. Conscientious folks don’t behave themselves merely because of them. And the bad actors among us have always either ignored them or found a way around them. (See: Another Aggressive Personality … Continue reading Laws Can’t Fix What Only Character Can →

The Tragedy in Newtown

December 21, 2012Aggression, Mental Health, Personality and Character, Psychology, Relationships, Responsibilityaggression, character, character disturbance, discipline, inhibition, responsibility, violenceDr. Simon

Far too many individuals among us enter adolescence and adulthood without having developed the internal controls necessary to adequately regulate their behavior, and especially, to modulate their violent impulses under duress. That so many have so few controls is in itself a major tragedy in our culture.

Aggressive and Assertive Behavior

December 5, 2010Abuse, Manipulation, Personality and Character Disorders, Relationshipsaggressive, assertive, behavior, boundaries, character, fighting, injury, limits, principle, rights, Unhealthy Relationships, victimization, violenceDr. Simon

Assertive behavior is a key element of healthy, independent, adult functioning. But because asserting oneself is a form of “fighting” for one’s legitimate needs, it’s easy to get confused about the difference between aggressive and assertive behavior.

What Were They Thinking? – Pt. 2

April 4, 2009Abuse, Manipulation, Manipulators, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychological Manipulation, Relationshipsaggression, cbt, character disorder, character disturbance, cognitive distortions, manipulation manipulators, personality disorders, thinking errors, Unhealthy Relationships, violence, women, women's issuesDr. Simon

Persons with disturbed characters don’t act the way most of us do largely because they don’t think the way we do. Some will even advance points of view which they don’t really believe but which they want you to believe that they believe — all with a view to manipulating you or managing your impression of them.

Aggressive Personalities

December 7, 2008Abuse, Manipulation, Personality and Character Disorders, Relationshipsabuse and trauma, Add new tag, aggression, character disturbance, control, personality disorders, power, relationships, society, Unhealthy Relationships, violenceDr. Simon

There is a fairly substantial group of highly disturbed characters at the center of most abusive relationships and who pose the greatest threat to social order. These are the pathological fighters who resist all attempts to socialize them.

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Tag Archives: violence

The Tragedy in Newtown

Aggressive and Assertive Behavior

What Were They Thinking? – Pt. 2

Aggressive Personalities