THEORY

Very few clients can accurately analyse at the onset of therapy, as the threat of ego fragmentation makes analysis hard. The neurotic...

Three levels of operation Superficial - polite, civil and accommodatingMiddle layer - destructive urges and impulses - responsibilityThe...

Berne (1964) defined games as: “A game is an ongoing series of complementary ulterior transactions progressing to...

A rite is a movement towards depth, found, discovered, and experienced, where we rise out of an archetypal encounter with deeper understanding...

One`s mother is psychologically and psychically unavailable; the child is left feeling unwanted and unloved and a belief they are unlovable. They...

Basic lie The child rejects true love as they believe they are self-defective due to parental rejection and...

Short-term dynamic psychotherapy (STDP) is designed to create intrapsychic crisis leading to psychic disequilibrium, followed by narrative construction.

The Child sees others with narcissistic mental energy and experiences them narcissistically as self-objects. I am perfect, you are perfect, but I...

The mother is only interested in pre-oedipal infants for narcissist supply creating adult children with an infantilised ego. The mother will withdraw...

The disappointment in object love led to the withdrawal of interest (libido)from the world and reinvested into the self and self-esteem; normal...