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I recently took a personality test and decided I needed to change some things; some aspects of my personality seemed to be responsible for making me unhappy. A high level of neurotic anxiety was ...

The Science and Promise of Personality Change When I first told my friends I was spending a year improving my personality, many of them were appalled. I shouldn’t focus on changing myself ...

DEAR ABBY: Eight years ago, my husband of 26 years had a stroke, and his personality changed. He was difficult to deal with, but, with time, his old personality came back, and things got better.

She was transparent with me and explained to me the Kernberg conceptualization of personality organization. She told me at the beginning of my treatment ... level of the BPD sample’s functional ...

From the Archive: Shame and Survival In many ways, my 2014 essay, “Shame and Survival,” was a social experiment. Vanity Fair and its then editor, Graydon Carter, could have been lambasted for ...

Dear Annie: A few years ago, my husband -- always kind ... stroke -- specifically in the part of the brain that governs personality and emotional regulation. He had none of the typical symptoms ...