Spirituality

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

Object Relations – Part 2

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

Illusion, Disillusion, and Irony

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

Psychic Equilibrium

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

Psychic Retreats

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

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....

The Nightgown

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

The Human Child

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

Existential Psychology

Life, Death and Anxiety The fear of death haunts us and rumbles continually under the surface....

Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders

The narcissist has three levels of functioning. Effective surface adaptation with success due to underlying talent or...