Personal growth involves learning to feel deeply, however painful those feelings may be, and to think clearly about our experience.
Mixed Emotions: Loving and Hating the Same Person
A mixture of love and hostility toward our intimates is a fact of psychic life, but difficult for most of us to acknowledge and tolerate.
Your Plan for a Person
An idealized self-image can be an effort to deny internal damage that is felt to be irreparable.
Basic Shame, Toxic Shame
Basic shame is the awareness, often unconscious, that we are emotionally damaged. This article discusses how the excruciating experience of being broken or damaged leads to certain defensive and avoidant behaviors to escape from it.
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Projection is an ordinary part of our psychic life. This article discusses the phenomenon and enlarges our understanding of what “projecting” actually means.