THEORY

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

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

Berne (1964) defined games as: “A game is an ongoing series of complementary ulterior transactions progressing to a well-defined, predictable outcome. Descriptively, it is a...

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

One`s mother is psychologically and psychically unavailable; the child is left feeling unwanted and unloved and a belief they are unlovable. They don’t like...

Basic lie The child rejects true love as they believe they are self-defective due to parental rejection and abandonment. They grow up into People who...

Short-term dynamic psychotherapy (STDP) is designed to create intrapsychic crisis leading to psychic disequilibrium, followed by narrative construction. The triangle of persons gives a new...

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

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

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