I Love You, I Love Me Not: Developing Healthy Boundaries in Relationships – 7/12/2012

Presented by the Saranac Lake Library – sponsered by St. Joseph Addiction Treatment and Recovery Centers

Dr. Patricia O’Gorman, Ph.D is a nationally-recognized psychologist in private practice in East Chatham, Albany and is in the process of opening a psychology office in Saranac Lake.  She is noted for her pioneering work with families, children of alcoholics, trauma, child welfare, mental health, and has directed the Division of Prevention for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Come and find out  what we “do to ourselves” when we fall in love, and how boundaries, a key word in relationships, is rivaled by the other buzzword—control.  Attendees will understand how our approach to relationships is based upon expectations developed in childhood, and are shaped by society in the new digital age of instant communication, and media messages touting “no sweat intimacy.” Pat will show how for some this can lead to “anesthetizing” ourselves through alcohol, drug use, or by developing the tendency to take care of the one we love and forget about taking care of ourselves, codependency.