From Imposed Loneliness to Chosen Solitude: A CBT Path
Loneliness can be a haven or an invisible prison. A CBT path to turn imposed loneliness into chosen solitude: exercises, concepts, clinical cases.
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Articles on relationship psychology, CBT, well-being and personal development.
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Jealousy: Understanding Its Roots and Learning to Ease It
Jealousy is not a lack of love: it is a signal. Understand its roots and discover concrete CBT tools to ease it, without guilt.
Read the article →Recurring Arguments in Couples: How to Break the Cycle
The same arguments keep coming back. Understand the schemas and cognitive distortions that fuel the cycle, and 5 CBT strategies to break out of it.
Read the article →Emotional Exhaustion: How Do You Truly Recover From It?
In a world of constant demands, emotional exhaustion has become a silent companion for many of us. Here is how to recover in depth, with CBT tools.
Read the article →Breaking Free from Excessive Guilt: A Path to Serenity
Guilt is a complex human emotion. Healthy, it alerts us to our mistakes and helps us grow. Excessive, it becomes a burden. CBT tools to free yourself.
Read the article →Living With Generalised Anxiety: How to Regain Control
Generalised anxiety disorder is far more than a tendency to worry. Understand the mechanism and the CBT tools that help you regain control of your life.
Read the article →Building Everyday Self-Confidence: 7 Practical CBT Exercises
Self-confidence is not an innate quality set in stone. It is a skill you build and strengthen, like a muscle. Seven concrete CBT exercises to train it.
Read the article →Repressed Anger: How to Recognise It and Release It Safely
Repressed anger works like a sealed pressure cooker. Learn to recognise its hidden signs and release it safely, with practical CBT exercises.
Read the article →Breaking Free From Emotional Dependency: A CBT Path to Autonomy
Feeling incomplete without the other person is not love — it is a psychological pattern. Understand emotional dependency and the CBT steps that lead back to autonomy.
Read the article →Fear of Abandonment: Where It Comes From and How to Ease It
Fear of abandonment is a deep and often disabling anxiety. Understand its roots in attachment and early schemas, and learn CBT tools to ease it lastingly.
Read the article →Getting Started with Mindfulness: A Simple Practical Guide
Mindfulness has become one of the most recommended practices in cognitive behavioural therapy. But what is it really, and how do you begin?
Read the article →Chronic Stress: Learning to Listen to Your Body's Signals
Chronic stress is one of the great silent threats of our time. Unlike acute stress, which fades once the danger has passed, it settles in slowly.
Read the article →Understanding Depression to Take Action: A Practical CBT Guide
Depression is not weakness or a lack of willpower. It is a complex psychological condition affecting your thoughts, emotions, body and behaviour — and one CBT can transform.
Read the article →Setting Boundaries With a Narcissistic Person: A CBT Guide
Do you feel constantly criticised, manipulated or made invisible in a relationship? A practical CBT guide to setting boundaries with a narcissist.
Read the article →Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Its Comorbidities
As a CBT psychotherapist, I often meet people who come to my practice not for a personality disorder diagnosis, but seeking relief from real suffering.
Read the article →Narcissistic Empathy Deficit: Inability or Deactivation?
As a CBT psychotherapist, I regularly meet people facing complex relationships marked by what is known as narcissistic empathy deficit.
Read the article →Healthy or Pathological Narcissism: Where Is the Line?
The word narcissism is often used loosely, almost as an insult, to describe someone self-centered or vain. In psychology it is far more nuanced.
Read the article →CBT and Narcissistic Disorder: What Therapy Can Really Change
Narcissistic personality disorder is often seen as one of the toughest challenges in psychotherapy, yet CBT offers real avenues for change.
Read the article →Narcissistic Injury and Rage: Understanding the Mechanisms
As a CBT psychotherapist and founder of Psychologie et Sérénité, I often see emotional reactions that seem disproportionate.
Read the article →Where Does Narcissistic Personality Disorder Come From? Developmental Origins and Early Schemas
As a CBT psychopractitioner, I regularly meet people confronted, directly or indirectly, with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
Read the article →Over 2300 applied psychology articles
The Psychologie et Sérénité blog offers over 2300 articles written by Gildas Garrec, CBT Psychopractitioner. Each article is based on validated psychological models (Gottman, Young, attachment theory, CBT) to provide concrete keys to understanding.
Couple communication — Gottman's 4 horsemen, the 5:1 ratio, stonewalling, NVC
Attachment — Anxious, avoidant, disorganized styles, path to secure attachment
Emotional dependency — The 10 signs, self-assessment tests, CBT strategies
Ghosting & dating — Ghosting, breadcrumbing, curving, orbiting, zombieing
Manipulation — Gaslighting, control, narcissistic pervert, psychological violence
Infidelity — Understanding, forgiving, trauma bonding, reconstruction
Anxiety & stress — Relationship anxiety, burnout, rumination, insomnia
Jealousy — Pathological jealousy, retrospective, social media
Breakup & grief — The 7 stages, no contact, relationship PTSD
Couple & cohabitation — Moving in, arguments, libido, mental load
Parenting — Parental alienation, co-parenting, blended family
Young's schemas — 18 early schemas, cognitive distortions
Dating apps — Mental health impact, paradox of choice, dating fatigue
Mental health — When to consult, online therapy, CBT vs EMDR