Neuropsychoanalysis: Mark Solms and the Science of the Freudian Mind
Neuropsychoanalysis explained: how Mark Solms and the field he founded connect Freud’s theory of mind to modern neuroscience, and why it matters clinically.
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Flight Into Health: Why Patients Suddenly Feel Better and Quit Too Soon
Flight into health explained: why symptoms vanish just as therapy deepens, what the sudden relief defends against, and how to tell real progress from flight.
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Splitting in Psychoanalytic Theory: Klein, Kernberg, and Splitting in BPD
Splitting in psychology explained: Klein’s origins of all-good and all-bad, Kernberg on splitting in BPD, everyday examples, and how therapy builds integration.
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Transference in Psychoanalysis: What It Is, Types, and Clinical Examples
Transference in psychology explained: Freud’s discovery, the main types, clinical examples, and why the pattern that disrupts therapy is also what heals it.
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True Self and False Self: Winnicott’s Theory, Signs, Origins, and Therapy
True self and false self explained: Winnicott’s theory of how a compliant self forms, the signs of living behind one, and how therapy restores what is real.
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The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Melanie Klein’s Theory Explained
The paranoid-schizoid position explained: Melanie Klein’s theory of the earliest mental organization, its defenses, and how adults return to it under stress.
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Psychodynamic vs Psychoanalytic Therapy: What’s Actually Different?
Psychodynamic vs psychoanalytic therapy: what actually differs in frequency, depth, and use of the couch, what they share, and how to choose between the two.
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The Holding Environment: Winnicott’s Concept in Therapy and Parenting
The holding environment explained: Winnicott’s concept of being held in infancy, what it becomes in therapy, and why reliability matters more than warmth.
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Container and Contained: Bion’s Theory of Emotional Containment
Container and contained explained: Bion’s theory of emotional containment, how raw feeling becomes thinkable, and why it matters in therapy and in parenting.
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The Depressive Position: Klein’s Theory of Emotional Maturity
The depressive position explained: why Klein saw guilt, sadness, and concern as emotional maturity, how it differs from depression, and what reparation means.
