The Central Ego
We are all object-related by our own nature, the self in relation to the other and the relationship between. The structure for achieving self-expression...
Object Relations – Part 2
Because of distortion in the ego structure and functions, the borderline patient manifests a severely aggressive transference with acting out reactions (Ego weakness). They...
Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders
The narcissist has three levels of functioning.
Effective surface adaptation with success due to underlying talent or skill.Comes to therapy for neurotic symptoms, sexual difficulties...
Disorders of the Self
Kohut believes certain portions of the mind are not available to conscious thought, which holds psychic phenomena such as wishes, memories, fantasies and prohibitions....
Benign Aggression
Narcissism is a state and experience in which the person, their body, needs, feelings, and thoughts only pertain to them and are fully real,...
Love Relations – Part 2
The integration of sexual excitement and erotic desires occurs before the subject has the capacity to integrate object relations. The child splits their object...
Foundation of the Self
To understand what is happening in the world today, one must try and get into the objective concrete. The narcissist's rigid mind is a...
The Scapegoat Complex
Originally the scapegoat was a human/animal victim chosen for sacrifice to the underworld to appropriate God`s anger and to heal the community as a...
Character Analysis
Very few clients can accurately analyse at the onset of therapy, as the threat of ego fragmentation makes analysis hard. The neurotic character does...
On the Border
The structure of the borderline is split, with one part unconscious and one part conscious. Induced guilt and bodily tension and breathing constrictions lead...
