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...
The narcissistic child has omnipotent, controlling and tyrannical fantasies of controlling his mother (object), which are part of normal development but need to be...
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...
There is a tremendous loss of reality in perversion, an infantile solution for the wounded narc, employing disregard for their feeling of smallness and...
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...
The bond replaces emotional suffering, pain, abandonment and anxiety with a destructive self-limiting role and experience. Keeps one insulated, mechanical and detached from authentic...