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Understanding Ourselves: The Challenge & Gift of Therapy with Lori Gottlieb

Reimagining Love

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Is There a Relationship That Isn't Intimate?

There's a little bit of repetition compulsion possibly going on here. And i think that she is using him almost like a drug. You know, i am going to distract myself with this guy and think about him 24 seven and cry because i don't have him. There's probably some other grief and some other loss there too, that he is tanding in for. The reason we do that, and that'swhere the repetition pulsion comes in, is because we think unconsciously, agais completely outside of our awareness. We think, maybe this time i'll win. Yes, perhaps this time i will master that pain from childhood, except the ending will be different.

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