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...
Neurotics seem to be under a continuous pressure of compulsion, which overrides the pleasure principle. Recurrence relates to the active behaviour of the person...
A retreat provides a patient with relative peace and protection from stress when any meaningful contact with an analyst is experienced as threatening. This...
The analysis aims not to remove defences solely but to understand them and gradually help the patient recognise new possibilities and potentials. Coming out...
The neurotic works with a certain rigidity when deviating from cultural norms and patterns, with deep mistrust and suspicion of anything new and strange....
Neurotic Conflicts are often connected to convictions, beliefs and moral values with a presupposition we have developed ourselves. Once we recognise a conflict, we...