The SIPPI training program is organized around 102 central psychoanalytic concepts. Each concept opens a doorway into a way of thinking about inner life, relationships, development, and clinical understanding.
001
what dose it mean to analyze? In this lesson, we will dive into Freud’s invention.
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Psychoanalysis was born from Freud’s experience as a hypnotherapist. What was left till today?
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A question about how emotional conflict finds expression through the body.
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A way of listening to thoughts before they become organized speech.
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The fundamental role is an impossible mission and a standard for every practitioner
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The unconscious refers to mental life outside immediate awareness, shaping thoughts, feelings, desires, and relationships in ways that are not always directly visible.
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Exploring the immediate, visible surface of our mental life – the top of the iceberg where conscious thinking, deciding, and acting take place.
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Moving beyond mere intellectual explanation, providing an emotional intervention that translates unconscious material into a transformative interpersonal encounter.
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The psychological agency responsible for reality-testing, managing anxiety, and maintaining the vital balance between inner impulses and relational safety.
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The internal representative of social norms and authority, often manifesting as a harsh, self-critical voice that disrupts real interpersonal aliveness.
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The core realm of raw psychological vitality, emotional truths, and primary drives that seek expression beneath the defenses of the socialized self.
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The capacity to tolerate frustration and defer immediate gratification, allowing the individual to adapt and stay engaged with human reality.
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The fundamental psychic energy of desire and connection, understood in SIPPI not just as an abstract drive, but as the primary urge to engage others and stay alive.
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The regressive pull toward emotional withdrawal, silence, and avoidance – choosing psychological safety over the risks of lived human encounter.
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A defensive sequence where an unconscious truth is expressed clinically by denying it, allowing the patient to speak reality while remaining protected from it.
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The earliest developmental matrix centered on incorporation, dependence, and the relational vulnerabilities of trust, feeding, and basic containment.
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The developmental arena of power, control, and autonomy, where struggles with authority, submission, and boundaries first unfold between the child and his caretakers.
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The initial awakening of relational ambition, gender recognition, and curiosity – marked by the matrix of self-assertion, exhibitionism, competition, and interpersonal comparison.
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A phase of relative drive consolidation, where emotional energy shifts toward social bonds, peer networks, and mastering practical learning abilities.
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The mature capacity for mutual emotional presence, where the ability to offer genuine intimacy, love, and care becomes a lived reality.
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The painful internal tension between opposing self-states, moral demands, and desires, which is always activated and revealed within relationships.
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The foundational relational triangle where the child navigates exclusion, jealousy, and desire, shaping the future template for all close relationships.
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The clinical phenomenon where past relational templates and unconscious expectations are alive and re-enacted with the therapist.
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The therapist’s internal emotional response, serving not as a distraction, but as a vital diagnostic
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The creative process of channeling primitive anxieties and drives into socially valuable,
productive, and humanly meaningful pursuits.
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026
A compromise formation that speaks a painful hidden truth through bodily or behavioral
compromise, expressing what cannot yet be spoken openly.
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Focusing on the adaptive capacities of the self, analyzing how the mind navigates inner conflict while striving to maintain connection with reality.
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028
An active unconscious forgetting of painful encounters or unacceptable wishes to preserve
psychological safety and avoid overwhelming anxiety.
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Shifting intolerable internal feelings onto safer external targets, externalizing inner turmoil onto the interpersonal environment.
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The foundational premise that the mind is built from internalizing real, early interactions,
shaping how we perceive and treat others.
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A primitive state of anxiety where the world is split into perfect good and absolute evil,
protecting the self from complexity and ambivalence.
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The developmental achievement of recognizing that the same person can be both loved and frustrating, leading to guilt, care, and the urge to repair.
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A defense mechanism that compartmentalizes contradictory emotional states or people, avoiding the anxiety of integration and nuance.
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Attributing one’s own disowned feelings, faults, or aggressive impulses to another person to remain innocent in one’s own eyes.
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An intense interpersonal process where a person unconsciously forces another to feel and
experience their own disowned internal states.
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The psychological task of unlinking one’s own internal identity from the primary caregiver and establishing distinct boundaries of the self.
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The slow, cumulative development of unique personal characteristics, choices, and vitality, marking a distinct way of being alive.
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The early, essential developmental illusion of complete oneness between infant and mother provides the absolute safety needed for future growth.
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The classic conceptualization of the earliest state of life is one in which the infant is focused entirely on bodily homeostasis before relational awakening.
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The transition from physical existence to the birth of a distinct relational self, emerging
gradually through specialized developmental stages.
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The initial breaking away from the symbiotic orbit, as the child begins to explore the boundary where the self ends and the mother begins.
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The exhilarating developmental phase of exploring motor skills and autonomy, fueled by the narcissistic investment in one’s own omnipotence.
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The painful return to the caregiver after autonomous exploration, realizing one’s smallness and vulnerability, demands new relational repair.
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The ultimate integration of an enduring, stable sense of self and a permanent, realistic internal image of the other.
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The creative, intermediate area between inner reality and the external world where dialogue,
play, and emotional growth become possible.
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A defensive compliance built to meet the environment’s demands, protecting the inner core at the expense of authentic aliveness.
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The spontaneous, unforced center of authentic somatic experience and genuine psychological expressions the feeling of being truly alive.
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Winnicott’s playful, non-intrusive drawing game that serves as an interpersonal bridge to meet a child’s unconscious world without rigid structures.
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The surrounding relational setting that holds the developing self, emphasizing total presence and care over explicit clinical interpretations.
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A supreme developmental milestone rooted in the experience of being safely alone in the trusted presence of an attentive caregiver.
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The capacity to tolerate guilt and take interpersonal responsibility, turning raw aggression into constructive concern and lasting relationships.
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The essential clinical ability to hold, tolerate, and transform another person’s psychological pain and overwhelming emotional states.
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The pursuit of intellectual understanding or reasonable mastery, which can either serve
exploration or defend against raw emotional truth.
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The emotional drive for deep, affectionate attachment and emotional investment in the
reality and presence of the other.
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The raw destructive or aggressive orientation born from frustration, boundary violations, or the painful failure of containment.
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The ultimate, unadulterated emotional reality of a given moment; the raw state of being that requires surrender rather than intellectual explanation.
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Kohut’s concept of ‘vicarious introspection’- the primary, systematic tool to listen and see the world from within the client’s internal subjective reality.
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The independent center of psychological initiative and experience, striving for coherence, historical continuity, and authentic relational expression.
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The developmental line of investment in one’s self-worth, evolving from primitive omnipotence to healthy self-esteem, ambition, and ideals.
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An other experienced not as separate, but as a function needed to sustain, mirror, or complete the stability and vitality of one’s own self-esteem.
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The deep clinical need for the patient to feel seen, approved of, and validated by the therapist, thereby restoring a damaged sense of self-worth.
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An intense clinical orientation where the patient views the therapist as omnipotent and perfect, merging with his strength to achieve internal safety.
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The essential psychological yearning to experience an alter ego – the reassuring feeling of being an essential human being among other human beings (sameness).
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Sullivan’s term for the earliest, undifferentiated mode of raw experience – a series of disconnected, immediate sensory states without past or future.
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The collaborative, interpersonal process of testing and comparing one’s private thoughts against the reality and shared meanings of others.
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The internal mental images we construct of ourselves (like the ‘Good-Me’, ‘Bad-Me’, and ‘Not-Me’) and others are based on real experiences of anxiety or relief.
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The dissociated, uncanny aspects of the self that are accompanied by primitive, severe anxiety, kept entirely outside recognizable consciousness.
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Moving from abstract theory to human reality. Exploring how the mind is formed between people, anxiety, safety, and real connection.
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The relational matrix where two distinct subjectivities meet, interact, and mutually influence each other, recognizing that no mind exists in complete isolation.
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The dynamic, kinetic flow of emotional aliveness and presence that manifests between people, transcending dry clinical explanations or cognitive insights.
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Understanding psychological pain not as an abstract drive, but as a wound created in
relationships—and designed to heal in relationships.
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The theoretical position that psychological phenomena can never be understood alone; they are always bound to the interpersonal context in which they arise.
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The profound relational milestone where one subjectivity acknowledges another as an
independent center of experience, moving past pure omnipotent use.
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The view that clinical reality and truth are not discovered passively, but are actively co-created through the dialogue and encounter between clinician and patient.
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A live clinical approach where the unspoken, dissociated configurations of the self are enactedb and given a voice through real, relational interaction.
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The inevitable interpersonal sequence where both patient and therapist unconsciously play out the patient’s unresolved relational templates in the room.
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The narrative act of building a coherent, shared history out of fragmented relational traces, restoring meaning to what was lost or silenced.
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A defensive pattern where safety is chosen over aliveness, leading to emotional distance,
loneliness, and social isolation.
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A primitive refusal to accept the reality of a painful interpersonal fact or traumatic event,
protecting the self from catastrophic collapse.
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The defensive illusion that one dictates and commands the environment and others, warding off
deep feelings of vulnerability and dependence.
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An all-or-nothing defense that views an other as completely perfect and flawless, securing
protection against underlying persecutory anxiety.
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The sudden, complete degradation of an other to avoid the pain of disappointment, vulnerability,
or the complex reality of human imperfection.
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An intense interpersonal defense where internal unwanted parts are externalized into another,
forcing them to live out that specific dynamic.
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Unconsciously taking in the qualities, voices, or criticisms of external authority figures,
absorbing them into one’s own internal self-experience.
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The active division of experiences into disconnected extremes of pure love or hatred, protecting the self from the anxiety of emotional ambivalence.
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A radical disruption of psychological continuity.
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Converting uncontainable relational pain, conflict, and emotional distress into physical
symptoms, speaking through the body what the mind cannot hold.
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Expressing an unconscious conflict or internal state through physical action or behavior rather than containing it and translating it into speech.
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Turning a painful, terrifying, or aggressive relational dynamic into an exciting sexual narrative to gain control over underlying vulnerability.
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A character style organized around chronic mistrust, hyper-vigilance, and the constant
projection of internal hostility onto the interpersonal world.
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A structure defined by deep relational devotion mixed with intense self-criticism, fear of
abandonment, and turning aggression inward.
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A defense mechanism turned into a character style, using constant activity, grandiosity, and elation to run away from deep depressive pain and loss.
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An active character structure that tolerates or attracts suffering as an unconscious price to maintain connection and avoid complete isolation.
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A style structured around a compulsive need for cognitive control, order, and intellectualization, avoiding the unpredictability of raw emotion.
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An architecture where anxiety is discharged through repetitive behaviors or rituals, attempting
to undo hidden guilt or prevent imagined disaster.
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An emotional character style that seeks visibility and interpersonal connection through
expression, vivid emotionality, and gender dynamics.
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A self-structure built around multiple, unintegrated self-states, developed as a creative human strategy to hold chronic early relational trauma.
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Navigating fragile self-worth, deep self-criticism, and identity confusion through the matrix of interpersonal recognition and repair.
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An organization shaped by an immediate need to manipulate or overpower others, protecting a deeply fragile core from exploitation or vulnerability.
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A character style characterized by a rich inner world paired with profound external withdrawal, longing for closeness while fearing engulfment.
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