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...
Cult Ideology
People involved in mobs have an immediate sense of intimacy with one another derived from projecting their ego ideal onto the leader and their...
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...
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...
Spiritual Bypassing
The main reason for bypassing is due to a lack of tolerance, personally or collectively, for facing or entering and working through our inner...
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...
Foundation of the Self
To understand what is happening in the world today, one must try and get into the objective concrete. The narcissist's rigid mind is a...
