Mental Health

Originally the scapegoat was a human/animal victim chosen for sacrifice to the underworld to appropriate God`s anger and to heal the community as a...

The split, the discrepancy between what we long for and what we suppose are limitations of Western imagination, the day we discover and grieve...

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

The structure of the borderline is split, with one part unconscious and one part conscious. Induced guilt and bodily tension and breathing constrictions lead...

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...

Reduce the need to please Two motivations primarily based on fear Fear of being unloved - to be or not be of significance or worth,...

Totalism - all-encompassing nature of the beast, blocking out all alternate relationships or beliefs, locking daylight out of the picture. An “ism” is a...

Core damage or narc injury is at the centre of becoming a people pleaser, where all the spikes will be compromised. They need solid...

The Narc is embodied with Intense envy, with no genuine feelings of sadness/mourning combined with resentment and anger with revengeful wishes. There is no...

We start to explore kernberg’s ideas around the concept of Erotic desires being a sexual merger and symbolic fusion between the child and mother....