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Catching up with Stan Tatkin

The Science of Psychotherapy

CHAPTER

Psychopathy in Couples Relationships

Stress causes a one person's psychology in all of us. In couples, everybody comes to the door. We're really good at picking up anything that hurts us and remembering it for the next time. And so our ability to pick up threat, threat cues through the face, voice, body language, words, phrases is legendary. If I'm under stress and you are not talking in a way that's collaborative and cooperative with me, I can confuse you as an adversary. And I will too start to talk or behave in a ways that thinks only of me, which makes you then do the same. That's when this is for oops, sorry.

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