Parental Roles: How to Preserve Your Couple's Balance
Discover how to balance your parental roles while preserving your couple's relationship through CBT techniques.
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Articles on relationship psychology, communication patterns, and conversation analysis.
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Adult ADHD: ASRS Test and Complete Interpretation Guide
Learn how to interpret the ASRS test for detecting adult ADHD. Complete guide with concrete examples and recommendations.
Read article →Adolescent Crisis: How to Protect Your Relationship as Parents
Is your teenager's crisis putting strain on your relationship? Discover how to preserve your couple while supporting your adolescent.
Read article →Seasonal Depression: Reliable Tests and Assessment
Validated tests for diagnosing seasonal depression. Scientific assessments and reliable self-diagnostic tools.
Read article →Divorce & Mediation: Psychological Support to Help You Through
Psychological support during divorce: managing emotions, protecting children, and navigating mediation with serenity.
Read article →How to Know if He Loves Me Through His Messages: 8 Psychological Indicators
8 concrete psychological indicators to know if he loves you through his messages: initiation, emotional depth, vulnerability.
Read article →Couple That No Longer Communicates: What Your Messages Reveal
Your couple no longer communicates? Discover the 5 stages of degradation visible in your messages and how to reverse the trend.
Read article →Decoding Your Ex's Messages: A Complete Psychological Guide
Understanding your ex's messages: breadcrumbing, orbiting, genuine reconnection. A psychological guide to decoding their intentions.
Read article →Ghosting: What Your Last Messages Reveal About the Breakup
Ghosting: analyze your last messages to understand the warning signs and the psychological profiles of the ghoster.
Read article →Emotional Manipulation: How to Detect It in Your Texts
Discover the 6 techniques of emotional manipulation in messages: gaslighting, guilt-tripping, love bombing, triangulation, and DARVO.
Read article →Passive-Aggressive Messages in Couples: How to Detect and Respond to Them
Passive-aggressive by text? 7 common forms (OK., the ..., the silent treatment) and how to respond using NVC. Complete guide.
Read article →My Boyfriend Stopped Responding: What His Silences Really Mean
My boyfriend doesn't respond to my messages anymore? Psychological analysis of silences: avoidant attachment, cognitive overload, loss of interest.
Read article →10 Signs of a Toxic Relationship Visible in Your Messages
Discover 10 concrete red flags in your texts: textual gaslighting, response time control, double standards. Gottman analysis.
Read article →Silent Treatment in Couples: Analyzing Your Conversations to Understand
Silent treatment in couples: understand the 3 types, analyze your conversations, and distinguish healthy withdrawal from manipulation.
Read article →Message Response Time: What Psychology Really Says
Message response time in couples: what research says, the 4 responder profiles, and why timing is toxic.
Read article →How to Analyze Your Couple's Messages: A Complete Guide
Learn how to analyze your couple's messages to understand hidden relational dynamics. Response times, length, emojis: what your texts really reveal.
Read article →Saving Your Relationship When Communication Breaks Down: 5 Concrete Steps
Your couple is going through a communication crisis? Discover 5 concrete steps based on psychological research to restore dialogue and save your relationship.
Read article →7 Signs of Manipulation in Your Messages: Recognize Them to Protect Yourself
Discover the 7 most frequent signs of manipulation in couple messages and texts. Gaslighting, love bombing, silent treatment: learn to identify them.
Read article →When Love Becomes Utilitarian: Reification, Objectification, and Manipulation in Relationships
How to recognize a relationship where your partner is no longer a partner, but a tool. Reification, utilitarian profiles, manipulation, and strategies to escape.
Read article →The quest for validation on social media: when the like replaces self-esteem
Why do we need so much validation online, and how does it affect our real relationships? Dopamine, jealousy 2.0, showcase couples, and strategies to break free.
Read article →Over 190 applied psychology articles
The Psychology and Serenity blog offers over 190 articles by Gildas Garrec, CBT psychopractitioner in Nantes. Each article draws on validated psychological models (Gottman, Young, attachment theory, CBT) to offer practical insights.
Couple Communication — Gottman’s 4 horsemen, the 5:1 ratio, stonewalling, NVC
Attachment — Anxious, avoidant, disorganized styles, path to secure attachment
Emotional Dependency — 10 signs, self-assessment tests, CBT strategies
Ghosting & Dating — Ghosting, breadcrumbing, curving, orbiting, zombieing
Manipulation — Gaslighting, coercive control, narcissistic abuse, psychological violence
Infidelity — Understanding, forgiving, trauma bonding, rebuilding
Anxiety & Stress — Relationship anxiety, burnout, rumination, insomnia
Jealousy — Pathological jealousy, retroactive, 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 families
Young 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
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