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Understanding Social Pain Dynamics in Human Relations

Pages 229-238
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Understanding social pain dynamics can help explain and resolve avoidant and aggressive interpersonal behaviors that have an intense, intractable quality, typically accompanied by loss of Adult ego state functioning. The necessarily interpersonal nature of these pain dynamics can also involve and disable the professional, which has implications for working with these affective and behavioral dilemmas.

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N. Michel Landaiche

N. Michel Landaiche, III, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist for the student counseling center at Carnegie Mellon University and a faculty member of the Western Pennsylvania Family Center teaching Bowen family systems theory. He can be contacted at 5018 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, U.S.A., or by e-mail at .