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

Neurotics seem to be under a continuous pressure of compulsion, which overrides the pleasure principle. Recurrence relates to the active behaviour of the person...

A retreat provides a patient with relative peace and protection from stress when any meaningful contact with an analyst is experienced as threatening. This...

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 fusional complex manifests out of an underlying field and activation point in the fusion field. It seems connection has a quality of psychic...

The paternal mother postulates the early development of the human individual, just as the matriarchal crowd, in which the unconscious is paramount, and ego...

Life, Death and Anxiety The fear of death haunts us and rumbles continually under the surface. A dark, unsettling presence at the rim of...

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...

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