The healing effect of a loving physical contact is a basic human experience in all cultures. It is an experience that is – or at least should be – very familiar to us. And yet I had to make the astonishing observation – not only with myself but also in everyday therapeutic life – how strongly we »»
Strategies of the socialized secondary self The socialization that leads from the primary to the secondary self is inseparably linked to the process of repression and suppression of unwanted emotional responses. Therefore the development of the secondary self, the very core product of this process »»
Although according to MACHLEIDT and others rage and anxiety are not direct inversely related in the electroencephalogram, their mutual relationship cannot be ignored. The two feelings are either intermingled or they are in competition with each other. Similar to the difference between »»
Infants in the state of being love The phase of the primary self is of central importance for the psychic development of human beings in a double sense. On one hand the unprotected helplessness of the small being, which has no possibility of avoiding psychic painful experiences, opens the door to »»
The psychological pain of the DEPRIVATION of love From the disregard and repression of love (the being love as well as the primary excited love) – this elemental need of life – arise acts of the most brutal violence, especially when people are repeatedly denied this experience and especially when »»
