Articles about Development

Let's broaden our vision of attachment trauma by highlighting the importance of the caregivers’ ability to mentalize, regulate, contain, and play in catalyzing the develo...

Should psychoanalysis be recommended in old age?

What is it that promotes change in us? In my experience, being an analyst involves being consistently there, week after week, year after year, ploughing the field of list...

To become mature adults, people need to disentangle themselves from the rules and beliefs they took on unconsciously, in order to find their own truth and self-respect.

Why are some children more vulnerable than others? Making sense of differences in how children learn and behave at school.

Adept at cover-up, the ‘as if’ person, feels empty, yet is full of sorrows.

What are the core competencies that form and inform the conducting of a relational psychoanalysis?

The continuities, breaks and meeting points between Jungian and Relational Psychoanalytical currents of psychoanalytic thought and their ideas of the self.

I received a call from a businessman about his 14-year-old son. It was urgent... Otherwise emotionally engaged individuals may exhibit a flatness of expression where thei...

Our choice of psychoanalytic paradigm can serve to either conserve the limited human resources available to address a variety of situations encountered, or reify the para...

Finding your theoretical orientation is like falling in love.

Session vignette that illustrates the use of Parts Work using the Internal Family Systems model to cultivate self-compassion in the healing of Childhood Emotional Neglect...