Selective memory is one of those things that is an essential ingredient in other things—without selective memory, such things as denial and ...

Denial is at the core of narcissism. Without it, Narcissistic Personality Disorder simply could not exist. “ Denial (also called abnegatio...

Projection was the first clue I had that my husband James had something terribly, terribly wrong with him. When he reported having an entire...

“ Triangulation ” can be defined as indirect communication where one person acts as messenger between two others, often times altering or fa...

The term “ gaslighting ” is defined by Wikipedia as “...a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented with the inte...

Apartheid, a word derived from the Afrikaans word for “ apartness ,” was a governmental policy of segregation against non-whites in South Af...

I remember being quite sure, at age 8, that I hated my mother. In the logic of my child’s mind, you loved everybody except those who hurt yo...