Alter-Ego Transference: Twinship and Self Psychology
Explore alter-ego transference in psychoanalytic self psychology. Discover its theoretical origins, clinical dynamics, twinship needs,...
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Psychological Dictionary
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Philosophy of As If: The Power of Useful Fiction
Explore the 'As If' (Als Ob) construct: its origins in Hans Vaihinger's fictionalism, psychological applications...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Alloplasty: Adapting by Changing the World
Alloplasty is a foundational construct across psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and surgery. In psychology, it describes adapting...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Alloeroticism: Desire Directed Outward
Alloeroticism describes sexual drive, arousal, or fantasy directed outward toward another person rather than toward...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Aim-Inhibited: Desires Transformed Into Bonds
Explore the psychoanalytic concept of aim-inhibited drives, examining how diverted instincts form platonic love, friendship,...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Aim of the Instinct: Drive, Desire, and Release
The aim of the instinct in psychoanalysis represents the ultimate purpose of every drive: the...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Aggressive Instinct: Origins, Drives, and Biology
Explore the comprehensive academic analysis of the aggressive instinct, detailing its psychoanalytic and ethological origins,...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Age Regression: Reverting to the Past
Age regression is a psychological phenomenon and clinical modality in which an individual reverts to...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Affective Discharge: Catharsis and Emotional Release
Affective discharge is the psychophysiological process of releasing accumulated emotional tension. Explore its psychoanalytic origins,...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Affect Block: Emotional Arrest in Psychopathology
Affect block is an acute, involuntary interruption or suppression of emotional experience and expression, observed...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Adultomorphism: The Flawed Lens of Childhood
Adultomorphism is the cognitive bias of projecting adult mental capacities, motivations, and emotions onto infants...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Actual Neurosis: Somatic Origins of Psychic Pain
Discover the foundations of actual neurosis in psychoanalytic theory. Explore how Freud differentiated somatic energy...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti