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How to Deal with Anger

…is a natural and important part of being human. In this webinar, Dr. Lisa Firestone will explore how individuals can gain a deeper understanding of anger and transform their relationship with this heated emotion. This Webinar will: Define anger as a basic emotional experience that can provide us with valuable information Discuss how anger can be both a primary emotional experience and a secondary emotion that covers over other more vulnerable emo…

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Understanding & Preventing Suicide

…suicide prevention and treatment. The film includes a directory of resources on suicide prevention and information regarding publications by the experts featured in the program, including Dr. Lisa Firestone , Dr. Robert Firestone & Dr. David Jobes. Format: Instant Streaming or DVD Instant Streaming Rent $5.95 | Purchase $14.95 Buy Now Purchase DVD $29.00 Buy Now…

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Thanksgiving is Good for Your Mental Health

…hursday in November. Sections adapted from: Daring to Love, Move Beyond Fear of Intimacy, Embrace Vulnerability and Create Lasting Connection Tamsen Firestone with Robert Firestone, Ph.D. New Harbinger Publications, 2018…

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Challenging the Fantasy Bond: A Search for Personal Identity and Freedom

…In this thought-provoking book, clinical psychologist and theorist Robert Firestone explains how the fantasy bond, an illusion of connection, develops early in childhood to cope with the pain and frustration resulting from parental misattunement, neglect, or mistreatment. It is manifested as a destructive internal thought process, the critical inner voice. Later, the fantasy bond is extended to family members, intimate partners, and social groups…

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Home (not again) for the Holidays

…nt? In his upcoming and updated book, Challenging the Fantasy Bond, Robert Firestone discusses how we recreate the past in our current relationships. The concept of the fantasy bond, when applied to a couple relationship, demonstrates people’s compulsion to relive the past with new persons. The illusory connections they form invariably lead to a re-enactment of defensive styles of relating developed in childhood. In essence, people transform the d…

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Challenging Depression

…s the feelings behind those thoughts. In this insightful webinar, Dr. Lisa Firestone will introduce an empowering approach to treating depression, while highlighting specific actions individuals can take that have been shown to reduce symptoms of depression. She will discuss a method in which therapists can help clients identify destructive patterns of thinking, the “critical inner voice” that can perpetuate a cycle of depression. When someone is…

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The Divided Self: Rejecting Your Inner Enemy and Reclaiming Your Real Self

…-critical, and even self-destructive. This 90-minute webinar with Dr. Lisa Firestone will explore the roots of this division and the psychological impact it has on a person’s life. In her illuminating presentation, Dr. Firestone will explore why people turn against themselves. What holds them back from being who they really are and accomplishing what they seek to accomplish? She will introduce a concept known as the “Division of the Mind” to help…

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Breaking Free From Bad Relationship Patterns

…p with the same relationship problems. In this 90-minute Webinar, Dr. Lisa Firestone will shed light on crucial ways one’s early environment influences their romantic relationships. Drawing on research from attachment theory as well as her and her father, Dr. Robert Firestone’s, concepts of the “critical inner voice” and “selection, distortion, and provocation,” she will explain why people are subconsciously driven to recreate dynamics from their…

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A Powerful Way To Stop Projecting Onto Your Partner

…o take a gentler approach to each other, and help avoid falling into destructive patterns where both people wind up acting in ways we later regret. Creating Thriving Relationships: Free Webinar with Drs. Daniel Siegel and Lisa Firestone Length: 60 Minutes Price: FREE On-Demand Webinars Watch Now In this Webinar: This Webinar will feature a lively discussion between friends and colleagues Drs. Dan Siegel and Lisa Firestone on the essential… Learn M…

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Fantasy Bond

…was introduced by psychologist and author of The Fantasy Bond, Dr. Robert Firestone. In his book, Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice, Dr. Firestone explains the fantasy bond as follows: Generally speaking, the single most important factor that contributes to the deterioration of love and friendship in a relationship is the formation of a fantasy bond. People who develop this type of destructive bond often deceive themselves and each other by imagi…

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