Articles about Theory

Making sense of pathological organizations: A summary of different authors' perspectives.

Healthy emotional development can only happen if the child has enough of certain important types of experience.

A reconsideration of the Oedipus complex and its culture-specific and variable nature.

With special consideration of Oedipus at Colonus

The psychoanalytic model holds that we are primarily related to others; whether driven to be more competitive or more cooperative with them. Whether we love them romantic...

As a psychoanalyst I am amazed by the enormous impact of the attraction to the familiar, the resisting of strangeness, and the tendency to feel injured by the otherness o...

The Oedipus complex from an Indian perspective

Expanding the scope of psychoanalysis broadens and deepens the range of phenomena we can consider psychoanalytic.

From self-punishment to self-destruction: The psychodynamics of Jihadist acts.

Pubertal nightmares of a teen facing the discovery of his sexual difference

The interaction between Symboldrama and Analytical Psychology in psychoanalytic space: Possible zones of enrichment, conflicts and opposition.

Understanding the dynamic between a narcissist and an empath and why such a relationship exists is the first step in freeing yourself from this parasitic dynamic.