Q: My new boyfriend is very good to me and very fond of me. But one day he was standing in the kitchen behind me holding a knife. When I asked him to give me the knife to wash it, he stepped forward, out of the blue threw my head back and put the knife [...]

Q: I have not participated in any therapy involving memories I have of abuse as an adult. How does one distinguish between memories that may be false and those which are real? Do false memories have certain common denominators? These memories were written down in my journal at the time, and my memories are exactly [...]

Q: My mother has been formally diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. One of her traits is that she rewrites history to fit her own view of things, even to the point of denying something she’s said only a few moments earlier. For example, she denies ever raging at my sister and me and hitting us [...]

Q: I will tell you in a nutshell, I’ve been divorced for 8 years and my ex-wife has custody of my two daughters, aged 15 and 17. She lives with a guy who is not very happy in his relationship with her or my daughters. Earlier this year, she attempted suicide with no success, the [...]

Q: Someone I know has been going for psychotherapy with a chartered psychologist who is a member of the British Psychological Society. They have had several sessions with this person. An invoice for the therapy services was recently received by a relation of the person going for therapy. That relation had briefly discussed assisting them [...]

Q: I am 22 years old and in a four-year relationship. My girlfriend is two years younger, and at one point she had been living with my dad, step-mom, and brother when her mother and she were fighting. During this time (about three months), I later found out that my dad had raped her one [...]

Q: My little brother (16) has been molesting my little sister (14) for the past three years. My parents know about it, and have known for three years. They have put my brother in a few therapy programs (two of the programs lasted for a month or so and the rest was regular weekly therapy [...]