A Woman Who Wanted to Protect Her Father A young woman of 27 years came in and informed me that she was very depressed. She had spent a three weeks as an in-patient at a hospital. Upon her release, she…
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Parental Jealousy – Father and Son
Parental Jealousy – Father and Son Here are two examples of fathers who had problems with their sons. Due to jealousy from their fathers, both boys felt forced to leave their family home before they were ready to do so. …
Parental Jealousy – Mother And Daughter
Parental Jealousy – Mother And Daughter Cindy was a lovely sixteen-year-old girl who came in with both her parents. She was tall, very pretty, and looked me squarely in the eye as she stepped into my office. Mother and father…
Emotions as Percentages – Anger
As we discussed with Anxiety and Depression in Parts 1 and 2 of Emotions As Percentages, our goal is to create balanced personalities and patterns of behavior in which people interact as “normal” human beings and experience comfortable amounts of Anxiety, Depression and Anger both personally…
Emotions as Percentages – Depression
As discussed in the blog about Anxiety, the intensity of any one of the three negative Emotions can be represented as ranging on a scale from 1 to 100. To continue applying this same principle to Depression, at a very low or zero level of…
Emotions as Percentages – Anxiety
We tend to think that a person in good mental health should experience a minimum of the negative feelings of Anxiety, Depression and Anger. That is, for one who is mentally well these 3 Emotions should be at very low levels, or even non-existent. If these negative Emotions were to be…
Treatment Example 2
Following is an illustration of how identifying the Prime Love Giver of a family can help resolve what might be considered a serious mental health problem in a child. A family came to see me with their eight-year-old daughter and…
Creation Part 6 – Conclusions
In the parable about Adam and Eve and their sons Cain and Abel, whether one believes its religious message or not, we begin to see through the DOLF lens that the example of this family could well be thought of as a forewarning of how life…
The DOLIF Explanation Of Anger
In DOLIF psychology there are 3 essential negative Emotions: Anxiety, Depression and Anger. These three Emotions are built into every person and ready to be used and expressed from the time of birth. The human endowment that complements Emotions is Intellectual potential. This Intellectual power is also immediately available at birth….
List of Criminals whose crimes can be attributed to Sibling Rivalry
1. Amato, Grant 2. Asvenew, Peter 3. Bishop, Amy 4. Brown, Alvin Bud 5. Caylor, Yvonne 6. Chen, Edward 7. Duck, Kevin 8. Duke, Mark 9. Edwards, Kim (UK) 10. Ellerbee, Richard 11. Ewell, Dana 12. Fry-Pitzen, Amy 13. Hadley,…
Proof of DOLIF Theory – Part 2
In addition to the factors mentioned in Part 1, support for DOLIF theory comes from its nearly 50-year history and longitudinal design. It is a lifelong project that occupied the author’s personal time, effort and resources for almost half a century. Its origin is…