A hero ventures forth from the world of the common day into a region of the supernatural, where fabulous forces are encountered, and a...

The first stage of female and male development is that of psychic unity characterised by the symbol of the uroboric serpent, forming a closed...

The basic drama a person experiences in the collective psyche is the separating and synthesis of psychic opposites. In every war, a political faction...

The Transcendental function (TF) bridges the conscious and unconscious. The TF is the land of uncertainty, and disorientation, buffeted by forces of the unconscious....

In society, the diminishment of one's masculinity is equated with losing the male sex organ (castration anxiety ), while the attainment of manhood is...

Childhood is a hostage situation, where either child has no control over the way our caregivers parent us or fail to. Some parents have...

Man is born free and yet everywhere he is in chains The universal appeal of science reveals no permanent truth and cannot answer the...

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...

The death mother wields a fierce, violent and corrosive power, rampant in our society now. When the death mother (Medusa) penetrates both psyche and...

Three levels of operation Superficial - polite, civil and accommodatingMiddle layer - destructive urges and impulses - responsibilityThe biological core - Love and hatred -...

I wanted to expand on my thoughts regarding the present circumstances we have been forced to endure, comprehend, and process. For somebody who has...

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...

We find our authentic soul below the layers of cultural conditioning, where we meet sirens and monsters along the hero's journey, with the ego...

Jung`s archetypes are no more polar opposites when we compare a man driven by instinctual drives and a man seized by spirit. The archetypes...

A lot of people who seek therapy hope the problem is not theirs; the real problem is their family of origin, partner, or other...

A rite is a movement towards depth, found, discovered, and experienced, where we rise out of an archetypal encounter with deeper understanding and knowledge....

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

The soulful quest begins when the hero leaves his easy role, going into the depths of the self, the purification of their infantile masculinity,...

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...