Sentences with phrase «unresolved conflict which»

Conversely, choosing court as the combative arena to resolve post divorce issues can lead to a downward spiral of negative energy, years of resentment and unresolved conflict which is likely to damage the physical and emotional development of children as they grow up, caught in the middle of two warring parents.

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In other words, his unresolved conflicts about his own aggressiveness and de - pendency cause him to «need» two qualities in a woman which are actually contradictory — compliance and a managing quality.

This is the level of intra-psychic conflicts which, if unresolved, produce mental illness.

This is perhaps reflected by the curator's decision to name the exhibition after Mroué's 2013 work, which explores how the continuous strain of the unresolved and heavily mediatised conflict influences and forms people's relationship to technology and media.

I believe that most of our distress in life, often in the form of anxiety, depression, or uncontrolled anger, arises from unresolved conflicts in our important relationships, past and present, and that psychotherapy works by providing a new relationship - a supportive, empathic one in a which person can explore these important interpersonal connections, come to understand them in new ways, and change them.

■ Unresolved conflict around crucial issues can result in an impasse giving rise to a marital Gridlock — often with harsh, painful and destructive overtones in which each partner becomes rigidly entrenched in his or her position.

Unresolved disappointments and conflicts pile up until the couple is in what Dr. Gottman calls «an absorbing state of negativity,» which leads the partners to distrust each other.

Among the oldest is the psychodynamic approach, which attributes problems within a marriage to the unresolved conflicts and needs of each spouse.