Failure to convince the child he is really loved leads to regression to partial object relating and the De-emotionalisation of the Object-relationship.

Fairbairn - Schizoid Factors in the Personality.

A micro interaction of the Schizoid dilemma.

Some small clues as to when a patient attends therapy with a Schizoid structure.

"Opening the conversation with a quote from Freud."

"I don't really know why I have come."

Fairbairn having a dig at Freud and the overintellectualisers 😂🤔

Page 1 of Ronald Fairbairn's classic paper from 1940.

Why we should study mental processes of a Schizoid nature.

The greatest trauma a child can experience.

Ronald Fairbairn.

The constituent emotions of Masterson's abandonment depression

The 6 psychiatric horsemen of the apocalypse.

Depression
Anger
Fear
Guilt
Passivity/Helplessness
Emptiness and void.

Margaret Mahler - The mothers creation of the child.

James Masterson realising that his interest in research methodology/day job, was actually a defence against his own intrapsychic problems 🤔

When I was a child I learned to "self erase" - Thomas Zimmermann.