The Principles of Structural Psychology

This site promotes the teaching of structural psychology and structural psychotherapy strategy based on ethology, ethno- and anthropology, psychoanalysis and body-psychotherapy knowledges. It is a new well-founded approach for the treatment of autism, psychosis, addictions, heavy neuroses, and sexual or relational disorders.


Table of contents

Progress in psychoanalysis

Middle East Origins

Greek tragedy and rites

Alchemists

Shakespeare

Nietzsche

Emotions theory: Darwin, James and Lange

Sigmund Freud

Anna Freud

Carl G. Jung

Object relation: Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicot, Margaret Mahler, Frances Tustin, Harold Searles, and others

Wilhelm Reich, Gerda Boyesen, Alexander Lowen, and followers

Self-Psychology and Interpersonal Theory

Ethology and the imprints studies

Mythological, ethnological and anthropological studies: George Devereux, Joseph Campbell, and others

Structuralism

Jacques Lacan and followers, the birth of structuralism in psychology

Piera Aulagnier and the first structuralists

The Gestalt movement

The Palo Alto movement: communication

A Century of Psychoanalysis: Increasing the Depth of Understanding

Basics of structural psychology

Content and Structure

Psyche is an open system

Primacy of sensations

Principles of the psyche

Principles

Definition

Innate and acquired

Proposition

Principle of active search for inputs

Essential functions, basic imprints, and psychic structure

Definition

The structuring and early development of the child

Basic structuring

Essential imprints

Originary imprints

The vitality complex

The bonding and symbiosis complex

- neonate

- mother

- feeding and holding

The separation complex

Severe disorders

Primary imprints

Secondary imprints

Passage transformation

Childbirth: the vitality complex

Foreword

The natural steps of childbirth

The vitalisation complex

The two states of living beings

Constant mobilisation as a basic state

Withdrawal of psychic life

Autonomous breathing

The false idea of the passivity of the child

The symbiosis complex

The symbiotic instigation

Symbiosis: an external womb

The meaning of 'symbiosis' in structural theory

Bonding

Continuity

Loss of the stereotypies

The mother

The father

Not bonding

The infant's side

The mother's side

Properties of the postnatal symbiosis

The symbiotic space

Symbiotic phases

The emotional function and the object device

From reactions to emotions

The object relation

Attachment vs. bonding

Substitution symbiosis and parasitosis

The separation complex

Necessity for the end of symbiosis

Ethological viewpoint

When there is an absence of symbiosis or parasitosis

Overdue symbiosis

Factors inducing separation

- child's needs

- mother's adult needs

- mother's unresolved needs

Outcome of separation difficulties

Incest

Hate for the father

Structural Disorders

Autism, Psychosis, Paranoia, Perversion and Antisocial Disorders as Structural Problems

Early concepts

Structural concepts

Structural defects

Basic Structural Defects

Absent or aberrant imprinting

Absence of Vitality

Disturbance of the vitality onset (primary autism)

Regression to womb (secondary autism)

Self-murder: self-ablation of vitality

Asthma

Absence of bonding and aberrant symbiosis

Lack of initial bonding

Lack of symbiosis

Aberrant symbiosis

Absence of the father imprint

Lack of bounds to omnipotence

Lack of separation

Lack of safety of the mother

Absence of mark of sexual origin

Inversion of imprints

Perversion: Desire in the place of Law and Law in the place of Desire

Antisocial personality: absence of both Reciprocity and Law

Tardy structural defects

Absence of Freedom

Absence of Passage

Structural flaws and later compensation


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