Human Aggression: A Mysterious and Puzzling Force
Seeking deeper insights into this puzzling aspect of human nature.
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Adrian Perkel
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Dr Adrian Perkel
Clinical Psychologist
Cape Town, South Africa
Relationship Counseling, Individual Therapy
Anxiety, Anger +7
In-person & Online
Individual adult & couple psychotherapy and assessment. Specialises in couple psychotherapy.
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The Curious Case of La Petite Mort
How do we dress up the unpalatable nakedness of our nature?
The Benign Intention of Hate
Hate, and its derivatives in latent and manifest aggression, is, in its purest form, nothing more nor less than a mechanism of restoration.
Till Death-Drive Us Apart: Associating Injury and Aggression in the Couple
This paper explores the aims of the death-drive and aggression and its relationship with narcissistic injury in the couple dynamic.
The Phallic Container in the Post-Partum Couple
This paper examines a specific auxiliary defensive process that enters the post-partum period in a couple. To protect her infant, a mother splits and diverts aggressive i...
The First Seduction: Exploring Resistance to the Acknowledgement of Maternal Sexual Abuse
Over the years, I have been struck by how commonly it emerges that patients have been sexually abused by their own mothers, sometimes flagrantly, sometimes in the guise o...
The Immunizing Function of Aggression (in the Couple): an article for new therapists
Why does love invariably get contaminated by hate and anger, which apparently sets out to destroy the initial intimacies of almost every couple? Why does anger and emotio...
The Couple and its Instincts
The anatomy of the couple system, and the instinctual drivers that facilitate its emergence.
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