A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

 

Pain
Past
Pattern
Peace
Pearl
Perception
Perfections
Person
Personal
Personal Essence
Personal Mind
Personality
Personality Sectors
Personalization
Perspective
Physical Matter
Platonic Form
Point
Positions
Potential
Practicing Period
Prejudice
Presence
Primal Self
Primary Self-Realization
Process of Understanding
Projection
Psyche
Psychic Impressions
Psychic Metabolism
Psychic Structure
Psychodynamic Issues
Psych. Constellations
Psychopathology
Psychotherapy
Purpose

Psychopathology

We have observed that these defenses, which are generally associated with psychopathology -- regressive refusion with psychosis, grandiosity with pathological narcissism, defensive detachment with schizoidism, and splitting with borderline conditions -- do not really completely disappear in normal ego development. Our exploration of the deeper layers of the normal personality reveals that these defenses are still present and are in fact employed extensively. They become more active, or rather more consciously active, in the deeper stages of inner realization, revealing, in the presence of every ego individuality, structures that are, or are similar to, psychotic, borderline, narcissistic and schizoid structures. The individual does not usually become pathological when these structures emerge in consciousness, indicating that they are not the dominant structures in the personality, but they do cause considerable distress and anxiety. (The Pearl Beyond Price, pg 374)

 

Guntrip's analysis is fascinating, and certainly in accord with our findings in the process of inner realization for normal and neurotic individuals. His understanding that ego weakness is the basic problem of psychopathology is in our estimation a brilliant breakthrough in understanding ego structure. (The Pearl Beyond Price)

 

 

In addition, this incomplete understanding tends to limit the usefulness of depth psychology to the treatment of psychopathology, when it could be so valuable in supporting the realization of the full human potential. For this reason, in this exploration we hope to extend the present psychological understanding to include the deeper dimensions of experience. (The Point of Existence)