The following questions are related to ‘Character Disturbance’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I am doing a essay on Aileen Wuornos. She was a serial killer who murdered seven of her “Johns.” [Note: The story of Aileen Wuornos is the subject of the Academy Award-Winning Movie Monster, starring Charlize Theron.] Aileen was raped as a child and claimed that her first victim tried to rape her, and [...]
Q: I am 28 years old and have an abusive father. He has had anger management issues for as long as I can remember and has been extremely controlling of my mother and me. His outbursts have typically been limited to destruction of physical property, but he has on occasion been physical with my mother [...]
Q: I have found your website is to be unique source of wisdom on the blight of manipulative people. But there is a potential manipulator’s “defense” that has had me confused for some time. In any relationship, particularly a partnership, if one party does something the other finds completely unacceptable (overstepping their personal boundaries or [...]
Q: My husband lies all the time. He lies about everything and nothing. When we first met, he lied about being single. When I learned the truth and confronted him, he said he was “set up” because people were simply against us. I didn’t really believe him at the time, but I stayed with him [...]
Q: I am in desperate need of some professional advice. I have been dating my boyfriend for a year. We have had many arguments. He has made me suffer many times. He is 30 years old. His parents divorced when he was 18, and his brother has looked after him since the the divorce. Would [...]
Q: A few weeks ago, I got out of an emotionally abusive relationship. My ex-boyfriend was a very manipulative person. Actually, by reading your articles, I learned about many of the tactics he’d been using on me that I wasn’t aware of at the time. Most of the things I said or did were never [...]
Q: My mother passed away about 2 years ago. Since her death, my grandmother and I have been talking about things we had both experienced with my mother over the years. I never really understood much of my mom’s behavior. I endured years of emotional abuse at her hands and that of her boyfriend. But [...]
