Q: My son is one year four months old. I have noticed a new behavior in him. If he realizes that hitting himself with the swing is causing pain then he repeats hurting himself again and again till his attention towards it is changed or he gets distracted by seeing something else. I am slightly [...]

Q: How can I help my daughter recover from the effects of a year long emotionally abusive affair? She is a bright, intelligent, attractive 24-year-old girl, studying at university. Yet the affair has left her deeply depressed, and convinced that she cannot go on without this man, who has caused nothing but total misery. Things [...]

Q: My close woman friend is not communicating with me at this time. We usually would talk every day. We had a verbal disagreement (she did not like me speaking up to her about something she had said to me a week earlier). She said that I was not clean in my communication w/her and [...]

Q: I have for some time suspected that my mother has a personality disorder. Her behavior over the years has established a pattern of being insensitive towards the feelings of others (including her children), an inability to admit her own flaws or failings (e.g., repeatedly saying “I never tell a lie,” in the face of [...]

Q: My husband and I have been married for almost 16 years. When we met, I knew he was the one. He made me feel safe. He had been married before, and he confessed to me his ex had childhood sexual abuse issues. He also told me that he could never go through that again. [...]

Q: One of the things I care most about in life is being a good, nice person. But recently I’ve been having negative thoughts that I can’t seem to get rid of: Basically, my best friend is Chinese, and she has a great deal of pride for her country. But throughout our friendship she has [...]

Q: My boyfriend frequently downloads pornography of young teens. Just recently I found numerous photos of preteens and young girls in provocative poses that he attained from a photo sharing website. These pictures were of little girls in bikinis, family photos of young girls and their parents, teens under the age of 18 playing sports, [...]