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    Loyalty Bonds

    In Transactional Analysis (TA), loyalty bonds (often referred to as Invisible Loyalties or Scripted Loyalties) are the powerful, often unconscious attachments we maintain to our family of origin or...

    Narcisstic Transformation

    in a genuine feeling of sadness and meaningful longing. When abandoned or disrespected by others, the behaviour looks...

    Narcsisstic Essays

    The concept of taking oneself as the love object is a perverted form of sexuality with its own...

    Psychosexual Fixations

    Freud argued that if conflicts in each stage are not resolved, sexual energy can become “fixated” and show...

    Demon Lover

    Rape in our culture is something that can't be ignored. When the man in the feminine is repressed,...

    Demon Lover

    Rape in our culture is something that can't be ignored. When the man in the feminine is repressed, it becomes destructive; when in women...

    Narcissistic Wounds

    The narcissistic child has omnipotent, controlling and tyrannical fantasies of controlling his mother (object), which are part of normal development but need to be...

    Unanswered Self

    The infant of Mahler's differentiation subphase of separation-individuation, approx 4-9 months, is observably developed out of total bodily dependence, within a vaguely experienced dual...

    Broken Structures

    Ego identity refers to a consistent sense of self and a shared set of essential character traits that others recognise. The concept of identity...

    Being Seen : Emerging from Psychic Retreats

    An essential aspect of narcissism is being seen as the centre of attention. Self-consciousness can become acute and anxious when a child loses the...

    Imposter Syndrome

    Identity is an all-encompassing sense of self, not fixed, handed down and developed unconsciously. Something shaped and determined, reflected in passion and behaviour, and...

    Loyalty Bonds