A marriage is not a single open deck exposed to every weather system. It is a vessel with distinct compartments — and when the seals between them fail, a quarrel about the dishwasher can flood the erotic core of the relationship. The pattern beneath this is rarely about the dishwasher. It is about who is...

When a marriage evolves from a "libidinal dinghy" into a complex vessel, the risk of systemic failure increases. This article explores how to use the metaphor of sealed compartments to prevent a Parent-Child dynamic from sinking the entire relationship, offering a psychodynamic framework for maintaining the "Adult" on the bridge during times of crisis.

What happens to the 'Relational Handshake' when we switch from our mother tongue to our professional language? Exploring the British School of Psychodynamic theory, this post examines how trilingual expats in London and Singapore navigate identity, emotion, and clinical growth across English, French, and Greek.

In Greek mythology, few stories resonate as powerfully with the theme of emptiness as the myth of Erysichthon. Erysichthon, a Thracian king, brazenly cut down a sacred tree belonging to Demeter, the goddess of harvest and fertility. In her wrath, Demeter cursed him with insatiable hunger, a torment […]