The neurotic works with a certain rigidity when deviating from cultural norms and patterns, with deep mistrust and suspicion of anything new and strange....
An ego so fragile must fortify itself in impoverished idealisation and hubris. How quickly it rationalises its thousand adaptations, threatened by the pullback and...
The true Self is under siege when the mother fears separation due to impaired self, wanting to maintain dependency to sustain equilibrium. The mother...
Hello, I am delighted to discuss the controversial 2016 Andrew Wakefield Film "Vaxxed” with my very knowledgeable guest Garima Heath. You can find Garima at her podcast...
In society, the diminishment of one's masculinity is equated with losing the male sex organ (castration anxiety ), while the attainment of manhood is...
The Neurotic adult represents the mass hive mind, invested in the pleasure principle (autistic state) with no personal responsibility, always justified and right (the...
The analysis aims not to remove defences solely but to understand them and gradually help the patient recognise new possibilities and potentials. Coming out...
The hated child lives with Oedipal issues, with an ego full of deficits and is depleted, where resistance to the breakdown of pre-oedipal adjustment...
The infant of Mahler's differentiation subphase of separation-individuation, approx 4-9 months, is observably developed out of total bodily dependence, within a vaguely experienced...
Early on, the parents will supportively mirror the strivings of the child’s grandiose self and not threaten their idealization as parents, which is the...
In Transactional Analysis (TA), loyalty bonds (often referred to as Invisible Loyalties or Scripted Loyalties) are the powerful, often unconscious attachments we maintain to...
The narcissistic child has omnipotent, controlling and tyrannical fantasies of controlling his mother (object), which are part of normal development but need to be...
The infant of Mahler's differentiation subphase of separation-individuation, approx 4-9 months, is observably developed out of total bodily dependence, within a vaguely experienced...
There is a tremendous loss of reality in perversion, an infantile solution for the wounded narc, employing disregard for their feeling of smallness and...