Psychic Equilibrium
Neurotics seem to be under a continuous pressure of compulsion, which overrides the pleasure principle. Recurrence relates to the active behaviour of the person...
Psychic Retreats
A retreat provides a patient with relative peace and protection from stress when any meaningful contact with an analyst is experienced as threatening. This...
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. Coming out...
The Nightgown
The fusional complex manifests out of an underlying field and activation point in the fusion field. It seems connection has a quality of psychic...
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, and ego...
Existential Psychology
Life, Death and Anxiety
The fear of death haunts us and rumbles continually under the surface. A dark, unsettling presence at the rim of...
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...
The Neurotic mind
The neurotic works with a certain rigidity when deviating from cultural norms and patterns, with deep mistrust and suspicion of anything new and strange....
Object Relations Theory
Many clients present good impulse control in all areas but one, a counterpart of the psyche, with severe pathology and constant switching. Switching between...
The Magician and the Analyst
contemporary therapy must start to devote more efforts to understanding the psychology of ritual processes—the analysis of space and ritual processes involved in therapeutic...
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Narcissistic Wounds
The narcissistic child has omnipotent, controlling and tyrannical fantasies of controlling his mother (object), which are part of normal development but need to be...
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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 character does...
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 is the...
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 mother being...
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Fire in the Stone
The tension of opposites animates the individuation process, where the ego is no longer the centre of the personality. The person can embrace the...
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Gender and Soul
One’s sexual identity occurs as one becomes aware of desire (anima/animus). Syzygy (pair of gods) Is not just the anima/animus alone but always in...
