The Problem with Therapy

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Mind The Gap The concept of “mind the gap “Is one underlying the transitional space between the client and therapist that is both conscious and...

Pathologies of the Mind

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Narcissism has become such a persuasive psychotic trait that society is now deemed "Normal " or "Revered" as the general population seems incapable of...

Permission, Protection and Potency

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They are collectively known as the 3 P`s in transactional analysis to set the stage for a practical therapeutic framework. If the therapeutic relationship...

Three Characters

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The narcissist is formed by their relationship with primary objects (mother/father). Their parents can be too intrusive or rejecting, as failed attempts to separate...

Ego Death and Stages of Ego Death

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What is the Ego? The ego is the image we hold of ourselves, our core beliefs, relational patterns and perceptions which allow us to...

Rape of the Mind

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Techniques of Submission Today man is no longer punished only for his crimes; now, he may be compelled to confess to crimes conjured up...

The Central Ego

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We are all object-related by our own nature, the self in relation to the other and the relationship between. The structure for achieving self-expression...

New ideas of the Self

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An infant tries to maintain an original sense of perfection and omnipotence within an illusion of unity with the motherly figure. The idealised parental...

Spirituality

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The spiritual practice involves exploring who and what we ultimately are our true essential nature. However, western psychology focuses on the conditioned mind and...

Object Relations – Part 2

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Because of distortion in the ego structure and functions, the borderline patient manifests a severely aggressive transference with acting out reactions (Ego weakness). They...

Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony

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Illusions are universal and ubiquitous, which must all emerge to face reality. The acceptance of both illusion and reality requires an ability to entertain...

Psychic Equilibrium

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Cult Ideology

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People involved in mobs have an immediate sense of intimacy with one another derived from projecting their ego ideal onto the leader and their...

The Neurotic mind

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The neurotic works with a certain rigidity when deviating from cultural norms and patterns, with deep mistrust and suspicion of anything new and strange....