Tag: object attachment

• Narcissus and the Absent Father: Towards an Ecological Understanding of Narcissism and Ego Development

  

  Dr. Tom explores the idea of the absent father in the development of primary and secondary narcissism. He analyzes and amplifies the themes present in the original story Echo and Narcissus as a means to develop an ecological understanding of narcissism and its effects on healthy and unhealthy ego development.

  Dr. Thomas Maples

  December 25, 2018

  Analytical Psychology, Myth and Psychology, Narcissism

  Analytical Psychology, Archetypes, Carl Jung, Echo and Narcissus, Father Archetype, Father Son Relationship, Iron John, Mother Archetype, Narcissism, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Narcissus, object attachment, Object Relations Theory, primary narcissism, Robert Bly, secondary narcissism, shadow archetype, transformation

• Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha & Psychoanalytic Perspectives of Childhood Development

  

  Sigmund Freud (1917/1966) developed a theory about autoerotic zones that affect the development of children until early adult life. While Freud’s stage theory ends with the emergence of young adult life, these stages coalesce into an adult personality that is ready to fulfill the primary life task of reproduction. Freud based the theory of autoeroticism…

  Dr. Thomas Maples

  June 21, 2018

  Analytical Psychology, Depth Psychology, Dr. Thomas Maples, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud

  archetype, Carl Jung, Child Psychology, Childhood Development, ego development, Hermann Hesse, Introjection, Melanie Klein, object attachment, Object Relations Theory, Oedipal Development, primary narcissism, Projection, Psychoanalysis, psychological defense mechanisms, Psychosexual Development, Sigmund Freud, superego development, The Stockton Therapy Network, triangulation

• Depth Psychology, and Theoretical Approaches to Childhood Development: Siddhartha, Evolutionary Theory, & Psychological Attachment

  

  Dr. Thomas Maples of The Stockton Therapy Network explores depth psychological theories of childhood development.

  Dr. Thomas Maples

  May 15, 2018

  Analytical Psychology, Depth Psychology, Dr. Thomas Maples

  Archetypes, Attachment Theory, Biological Development, Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, Childhood Development, Dr. Thomas Maples, Erik Erikson, Evolutionary Psychology, Hermann Hesse, Human Development, intelligent design, object attachment, Object Relations Theory, Oedipal Development, Old, psychological development, Sigmund Freud, Sociological Development

• Dreaming Our Children’s Life Forward: The Archetypal Development of Siddhartha’s Early Life

  

  Childhood consists of a time when the paradoxical pull between a parent’s dreams for their child and the innate destiny a child will pursue spurs the process of development forward. I feel a joy in my heart as I watch my two son’s grow into their own being. When they laugh, my heart grows wider…

  Dr. Thomas Maples

  March 12, 2018

  Analytical Psychology, Jungian Psychology

  Analytical Psychology, Carl Jung, Child Psychology, Childhood Development, Childhood Personality Development, development, developmental psychology, ego developmet, Father Son Relationship, Inferior function, Jungian Developmental Psychology, Jungian Psychology, Jungian Typology, Love, Love and Early Attachment, Mother Archetype, Mother Son Relationship, motherhood, object attachment, Psychology, social relationship, superego development, The Stockton Therapy Network