One of the more interesting concepts in psychology is called the “help-rejecting complainer.” That is somebody who brings problems to you and tells you they want your advice. As soon as you offer any, though, they either negate it, tell you why it won’t work, or tell you they already did that. That kind of […]
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A longtime New York City psychotherapist Robert Akeret wrote a book called Tales From a Traveling Couch. In it, he describes a cartoon; In the first frame, a man is riding on his bicycle to his therapist’s appointment and there’s a monkey on the man’s back. It’s a representation of a problem or burden that […]
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