Articles about Development

The Psychotherapist’s Erotic Subjectivity: Commentary and Critique of Mann, D. (1997).

Comment from a Relational Psychoanalytical Perspective on “The Mirror Transference in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Alcoholism: A Case Report” by J. Gustafson, (199...

A Wider Take on Confidentiality and Communication.

Many counselling membership and professional regulatory bodies and associations state and require that for a professional counsellor to work ethically, they must attend r...

Punishment, violence and abuse are about power – who is big and who is not. Who receives and who perpetrates violence. We cannot speak about power in South Africa without...

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be her...

Psychoanalysis, Drawings and Words of Children

Understanding what attachment is and the role it plays in shaping our experience may shed some light on our own temperament, outlook, and relationship patterns.

How do we ensure we are primed to learn new skills and knowledge? And how can we particularly ready ourselves for emotional learning? And what is our responsibility?

From its beginnings, psychoanalysis and psycho-dynamic approaches have been criticized as unscientific, and their imminent demise predicted. Yet they have persisted...