Professional Resources for Therapists

Against the backdrop of South Africa's appalling baby rape statistics; we are reminded that functional adults only develop from properly loved babies.

A masterful illustration of the multilayered nature of horrific traumatic experience. Contains disguised session material.

Bion’s writings on dreams claim our attention for the idea that dreaming is a variant of ‘thinking’.

This paper examines a specific auxiliary defensive process that enters the post-partum period in a couple. To protect her infant, a mother splits and diverts aggressive i...

Over the years, I have been struck by how commonly it emerges that patients have been sexually abused by their own mothers, sometimes flagrantly, sometimes in the guise o...

Why does love invariably get contaminated by hate and anger, which apparently sets out to destroy the initial intimacies of almost every couple? Why does anger and emotio...

This paper explores the aims of the death-drive and aggression and its relationship with narcissistic injury in the couple dynamic.

A psychoanalytic take on how we try resolve powerfully conflicting emotions towards those who matter most. Contains disguised session material.

Fanon, Violence, Decolonization and Corruption: An analysis!

A thought provoking and penetrating glimpse into the psychoanalytic treatment of an anorexic adolescent girl.