The Archetype of Initiation
When people act "Crazy" compared to conventional methods, they often search for some extraordinary space that will allow them to leave an old phase...
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....
Neurotics Conflicts
Neurotic Conflicts are often connected to convictions, beliefs and moral values with a presupposition we have developed ourselves. Once we recognise a conflict, we...
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...
The forbidden Self
The interior self's goal is to produce a whole and integrated state of being that is not totally dependent upon all the values, strategies...
Human Relationships
Transformation is always a challenging process for us to contemplate and embrace, for the psyche tends to revert to its most stable forms, the...
Meta Dynamics
Intimacy requires equal risk-taking and authenticity, where the client and therapist find their way through what is occurring in the here and now. We...
Psychic Energy
Beneath the decent façade of consciousness with a false disciplined moral order, with its good intentions, lies the crude instinctual faces of life. Monsters...
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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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Slings and Arrows
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...
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Loyalty Bonds
In Transactional Analysis (TA), loyalty bonds (often referred to as Invisible Loyalties or Scripted Loyalties) are the powerful, often unconscious attachments we maintain to...
