Publications
Publications
- The Emergence of the Self Before Symbolization: Is There Mental Life Before Representation?→
- The Child in the Parents' Bed: Desire, Guilt, and the Meaning of Boundaries→
- How Our Earliest Relationships Shape the Mind Throughout Life→
- When Feelings Replace Thought→
- The Therapeutic Alliance→
- The Search for Safety, the Fear of Relationships, and the Inner Retreat→
- Unconscious Guilt→
- Why Insight Alone Does Not Produce Psychological Change→
- Idealisation, Mirroring and Twinship: Three Fundamental Narcissistic Needs→
- Bodily-Emotional Investment: Before Emotion Becomes Representation→
- Psychic Energy: Cathexis, Decathexis and Emotional Investment→
- Enactment: When the Internal World Becomes a Relationship→
- The Transmission of Primitive Experience in the Therapeutic Relationship→
- The Internal Object World and the Origins of Personality→
- How the Earliest Relationship Creates the Conditions for Psychological Development→
- Primary Process and Secondary Process→
- The Pleasure Principle and the Reality Principle→
- The Superego→
- The Ego→
- Melanie Klein: Positions and Internal Objects→
- The Id→
- What Does Psychoanalytic Diagnosis Mean?→
- How Does a Psychoanalyst Think?→
- Why Two People with the Same Symptom May Need Completely Different Treatment→
- Mourning→
- The Narcissistic Disorders→
- The Therapeutic Frame→
- Mentalization and Reflective Function→
- Termination of Psychoanalytic Treatment→
- Separation–Individuation (Margaret Mahler)→
- Silence in Psychoanalysis→
- Personality Organization according to Otto Kernberg→
- Dreams: The Royal Road to the Unconscious→
- Resistance: Why Change Is So Difficult→
- The Unconscious: The Central Concept of Psychoanalysis→
- Defence Mechanisms (Part I): How the Ego Protects Psychic Equilibrium→
- Defence Mechanisms (Part II): Primary Defence Mechanisms→
- Defence Mechanisms (Part III): Secondary Defence Mechanisms and the Role of Defences in Mental Life→
- Transference and Countertransference: The Heart of Psychoanalytic Work→
- The Borderline Spectrum: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Personality Organization→
- The Depressive Spectrum: Loss, Internal Objects and the Capacity to Mourn→
- The Anxiety Disorders Spectrum: Anxiety as a Signal Rather Than an Enemy→
- The Psychotic Spectrum: Reality Testing, Symbolization and the Fragmented Self→
- Developmental Origins of Anxiety: From the Infant's First Fears to Adult Psychopathology→
- The Neurotic Spectrum: Conflict, Defence and Personality Structure→
- Repetition Compulsion→Read the full article on Facebook
- The Aim of Psychoanalysis→
- Splitting→
- Michalis Paterakis – The Mental Body→
- Shame and Narcissism→
- The Psychoanalytic Group: A Path Toward Truly Encountering the Self→
- Symbolization and the Formation of Psychological Reality→
- Psychic Conflict: Why Opposing Emotional Forces Can Coexist Within the Mind→
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