New ideas of the Self
An infant tries to maintain an original sense of perfection and omnipotence within an illusion of unity with the motherly figure. The...
Spirituality
The spiritual practice involves exploring who and what we ultimately are our true essential nature. However, western psychology focuses on the conditioned...
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...
Psychic Equilibrium
Neurotics seem to be under a continuous pressure of compulsion, which overrides the pleasure principle. Recurrence relates to the active behaviour of...
Psychic Retreats
A retreat provides a patient with relative peace and protection from stress when any meaningful contact with an analyst is experienced as...
Seeing and Being Seen
The analysis aims not to remove defences solely but to understand them and gradually help the patient recognise new possibilities and potentials....
The Nightgown
The fusional complex manifests out of an underlying field and activation point in the fusion field. It seems connection has a quality...
The Human Child
The paternal mother postulates the early development of the human individual, just as the matriarchal crowd, in which the unconscious is paramount,...
Existential Psychology
Life, Death and Anxiety
The fear of death haunts us and rumbles continually under the surface....
Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders
The narcissist has three levels of functioning.
Effective surface adaptation with success due to underlying talent or...
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Belief and Imagination
Belief rests as a possibility, not a certainty, yet it produces an emotional state that goes with certainty, as one can't rid...
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Character Analysis
Very few clients can accurately analyse at the onset of therapy, as the threat of ego fragmentation makes analysis hard. The neurotic...
Restoration of the Self
Early on, the parents will supportively mirror the strivings of the child’s grandiose self and not threaten their idealization as parents, which...
Separation Anxiety
During the symbiotic phase, the child has a cognitive experience of “oneness”, where the mother gratifies the child's needs, unaware of the...
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Hello, today I am delighted to have "Joe Atwill" on my show as we discuss Joe's 2006 book Caesar’s Messiah. The book and...
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