You may use defense mechanisms to help protect you from stress, but they can be both helpful and harmful. Recognizing defense ...

Viruses insert “transposable elements” into the genetic material of host cells to replicate. While cells’ defense mechanisms have learned to silence most of these viral insertions, a few “jumping ...

Many times in therapy, clients talk about how they grew up learning to function in a particular way but that this way no longer seems to work. They might be experiencing relationships involving work, ...

The first step in a 12-step program is for the addict to admit that they have a problem, because most addicts are in denial about their addictions. And, as my clinical supervisor observed when I was ...