Bad Object: The Shadow of Early Attachment
Explore the concept of the bad object in psychoanalysis and object relations theory. Understand its...
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Psychological Dictionary
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Bad-Me: Sullivan’s Interpersonal Shadow
Explore Harry Stack Sullivan's psychoanalytic construct of the 'Bad-Me', detailing its development, interpersonal dynamics, clinical...
November 8, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Bad Breast: Origins of Persecutory Anxiety
Explore the psychoanalytic concept of the bad breast in Melanie Klein's object relations theory. Discover...
November 8, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Autoplasty: Internal Paths to Adaptation
Autoplasty is the psychological process of adapting to environmental stress by modifying internal mental structures...
November 8, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Automatic Drawing: Art of the Unconscious Mind
Automatic drawing is a psychological and artistic method where marks are produced without deliberate, conscious...
November 7, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Automasochism: The Psychology of Self-Inflicted Pain
Explore automasochism: its clinical definitions, psychoanalytic origins, neurobiological mechanisms, diagnostic criteria, and psychological dimensions.
November 7, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Autocentric: Inside Subjective Perception
Autocentric perception defines a mode of sensory experience centered entirely on the subject's internal bodily...
November 7, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Autistic-Contiguous Position: Sensory Matrix
Explore the autistic-contiguous position, Thomas Ogden's psychoanalytic concept describing the sensory-dominated organization of the bodily...
November 7, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Authority Complex: Dynamics of Power and Defiance
An authority complex is an unconscious constellation of memories and emotional attitudes toward power and...
November 7, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
As-If Personality: Masks of the False Self
Explore the as-if personality: a psychoanalytic construct describing individuals who mimic emotion and identity while...
November 7, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Archaic Inheritance: Ancestral Echoes in the Mind
Archaic inheritance denotes the psychoanalytic concept that ancestral memories, primal fantasies, and phylogenetic traces are...
November 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
APsaA: The Vanguard of American Psychoanalysis
The American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) is the preeminent scientific and professional organization in the United...
November 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti