Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional ones»

Our job as couples therapists is to be very honest with you: healthy relationships exist, as well as, incredibly dysfunctional ones.

When the immune system becomes dysfunctional one of the Th1 and Th2 responses becomes dominant over the other and causing the development of chronic allergies, autoimmune diseases and recurrent infections.

This year has certainly been awash with dysfunctional ones.

Their relationship is the crux of the film and it is a very dysfunctional one at that.

The insidious thing here is that a manager can't tell the difference between a solid performance measurement system and a dysfunctional one, until the latter blows up.

In real nature, they're much more like a family — those few families that are functional, not the dysfunctional ones!

And happy couples are so much more fun to be around than dysfunctional ones!

The dysfunctional ones in «Smart People» are a widower, who is an insensitive, self - absorbed university teacher (Dennis Quaid); his isolated, perfectionist, high school senior daughter (Ellen Page); his irresponsible brother (Thomas Haden Church), and a former student who is now a doctor burdened with issues (Sarah Jessica Parker).

Directed by Simon Curtis from a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Simon Vaughan, «Goodbye» is a portrait of a remarkable family, but a dysfunctional one.

Superintendent Lewis promised the new combined system would be nothing like the bloated, dysfunctional one that existed before Katrina.

Things like the S Health fitness software or the aforementioned battery saving mode can come in handy, but for every helpful feature you get three pointless and / or dysfunctional ones, such as the clumsy heart rate monitor and fingerprint scanner, the third - rate MyMagazine news aggregator (which is thankfully removable now), or the large suite of finicky gesture controls.

The program teaches that problem behaviors arise because children lack constructive ways to deal with thoughts and feelings and instead resort to dysfunctional ones.

It takes conscious effort to find the kernels of good interactions that can exist despite, or side by side with, the dysfunctional ones.