Decoding Envy: Carveth
## A Look at the Destructive and Creative Sides Envy, a complex emotion often shrouded in secrecy, takes center stage in this video by Don Carveth. Carveth, a prominent figure in the field of...
Psychoanalysis
Carveth: Psychoanalytic Perspective of Anxiety
This blog post is based on a video by Don Carveth titled “ANXIETY” uploaded on August 7th, 2018. In the video, Carveth discusses anxiety from a psychoanalytic perspective, drawing on the works of...
Naranjo: The Great Composers and the Enneagram
https://youtu.be/Xuwgwefqff0 Some years ago the late Claudio Naranjo gave this lecture, and I am glad that it is recorded. Naranjo was a expert personality theorist. We who were taught the...
Carveth: Transference & Countertransference
How can we understand transference and countertransference? Psychoanalyst Don Carveth explains the concepts in these...
The Manic Need to Control : Kleinian Theory
These are excerpts on the subjects from notes taken from Carveth's lecture "Introduction to Kleinian Theory 5".  Manic...
Kernberg Model of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Diagnostic definitions for Narcissistic Personality Disorders (NPDs) are important to clinicians for communicating and understanding the symptoms laid out before them through the phenomenon of the...
Freud and Fiction: The Psychological Thinking about Literature
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The Paranoid-Schizoid Position
Melanie Klein (1997/1924-1963) writes that in the first 3-4 months of life the infant experiences anxiety, which is driven by the fear of annihilation. This is a primary cause of persecutory...
Mourning and Making Reparation through Art
From a development standpoint, this ability to mourn a loss develops in the infant that has moved on from the [paranoid-schizoid position](http://wp.me/p8Lvmc-fp) onto the depressive position...
Bollas: Transformational Object
Notes of this paper by [Christopher...
Personality vs Personality Disorders
There are the structural features of what we understand to be healthy functional normal personality in contrast to personality disorders. The normal personality is characterized by: 1. An...