Sentences with phrase «neurotic needs»

If young people knew themselves better, they would be less pushed by neurotic needs in their choices of «roommates for life.»

The effect of this influence on the minister is to tempt him to make the focus of counseling the wife's hidden neurotic needs which allegedly find satisfaction in the husband's continued alcoholism.

There are in many churches one or more groups which suffer from severe personality problems and are meeting only the neurotic needs of a few persons.

The more important the subject of gossip, the better the neurotic needs of the gossiper are served.

The essence of neurotic needs is wanting to eat one's cake and have it too.

We have seen that alcoholics often have neurotic needs which encourage the formation of immature dependency relationships.

A good illustration of a conflicted or neurotic need is the powerful fear of intimacy in a person whose painful loneliness makes him crave closeness intensely.

«Babies won't wait» is wise advice, but some mothers experience the call to create not as an external obligation, a neurotic need to churn out proof of their continued existence, but as an inner imperative.

Or is the neurotic need to talk merely a tragicomic symptom of its irreparable wrongness?

This might be a neurotic need, but billions of dollars have been wasted in pouring water down this hole in the ocean of ignorance.

Nettles» works dare us to acknowledge the primal and sometimes neurotic need we have to make sense of it all, and the magical ability that language has to both fulfill and thwart that need.

Not exact matches

Christians, on the other hand, who seem to think the own everything and can tell everyone what to do, need to be treated like any other aggressive neurotic children — firmly denied each and every anti-social desire they have no matter how much they whine or throw a temper tantrum.

So - called neurotic persons seek to resolve conflicts between two sides of their needs (e.g., dependency and autonomy) by ignoring one side and exaggerating the other.

One need only recall Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom to be reminded that an authoritarian religious or political system may be attractive to neurotic people and yet not be psychologically constructive.

When two persons have reason to feel that their needs, both healthy and neurotic, will be met to a substantial degree by the other, their mutual attraction will be intense.

She says she needs it, there are other dogs in the building, so don't be so neurotic about the rules.

For Shepard the sensibility we need, if we are to be saved from neurotic self - destruction as a species, is like that of our hunting and gathering ancestors.

Pathological (neurotic) anxiety arises when contradictory impulses, desires or needs clamor simultaneously for expression or satisfaction.

The minister or lay leader needs to understand something of the neurotic conflicts within the individuals who cause them.

That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.

I am not saying that you need to be neurotic about the weight you gain, but you do need to pay attention to it.

Finding depression and an evacuated city, Megamind turns to slob cameraman Hal (Jonah Hill) for help, using a formula to turn the schlub into a hero, thus restoring needed balance to the neurotic madman's life.

The nostalgic ensemble drama revolves around the efforts of a neurotic single - mom (Annette Bening) to parent a naive 15 year - old (Lucas Jade Zumann) in dire need of a role model.

(I do still track and graph my Bookscan numbers every week to fulfil my neurotic validation needs, of course.

Dear Lord, where have you been the past neurotic few weeks when I needed to hear all of this brilliant wisdom?

Traders, like modern financial innovators, need to be a lot like inventors than Neurotics.

Poodles are calm dogs who need a calm environment to flourish in - if you don't want a neurotic, unhappy dog (with the resultant problematic behaviors) then try to keep it cool at home.

If you neglect their emotional needs, they develop all kinds of neurotic behaviors: flank sucking, defiance of manners and commands, digging, potty problems, barking problems, destructiveness, mischievous behaviors, fears and phobias, worries, jumping, and... well, you name it.

The dog needs positive attention and becomes neurotic if neglected or mistreated.

He needs you to help him work off that energy in positive ways, instead of neurotic ones.

If you do want a bird you can interact with socially, you need to be be able to commit the time to do so, as the more social birds can be very demanding of attention and resort to neurotic behavior if denied the interaction that they need.

He will need diplomacy to deal with the staff at an institution that one insider described as «neurotic and dysfunctional».

The aim of individual counseling and parenting consultations is to improve the attachment relationship between parent and child, by helping parents to identify and manage their own emotional states and enabling them to be more aware of and responsive to their children's needs, improve their «ability to undertake parental role obligations without neurotic conflict.»