BPD (psycho babble)

Borderlines are unable to congruently bond or attach to a partner in healthy ways because they were unable to successfully master the separation-individuation phase of development in early childhood. Borderlines wreak so much chaos, drama, havoc, and often abuse, in relationships. When they try to relate to someone intimately the stress creates the rise of [...]

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Narcissist personality..and victims(psycho babble)

Self-flagellation is a characteristic of those who choose to live with a narcissist (for a choice it is). Constant feelings of guilt, self-reproach, self-recrimination and, thus, self-punishment characterize the relationships formed between the sadist-narcissist and the masochistic-dependent mate or partner. The narcissist is sadistic because, her Superego is unpredictable, capricious, arbitrary, judgemental, cruel, and self-annihilating [...]

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THE FOUR STAGES OF THE ALCHEMICAL OPUS.

CALCINATIO The first stage is steeped in the symbolism of fire. It involves the frustration of desire until the emotions exhaust themselves. Fire cleanses, the imagery here is almost always that of a wolf and lion. The lion personifies the lordly passions of “I want” and the wolf is perpetually hungry. These animals have been [...]

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Alchemy as a Psychological Metaphor. (an essay)

These are deep and difficult concepts. If we reflect for a while then the key issues are transforming nature through individual effort which is the same perspective held by modern psychotherapy. The underlying theme of alchemy is not really making gold. It concerns transforming the raw substance of human nature and releasing its potential for [...]

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