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Sensual desire and sexual greed.

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Realities and illusions.

The possible and the unattainable.

Life, survival and death.

A healthy psyche carries the standard of truth and truthfulness within itself. It wants to be free to express its own aliveness, its own needs and its own abilities. It is ready for dialogue and open to communication. It is happy within itself and wishes other people to experience this happiness as well. It forms the basis for us to lead constructive relationships with other people.

THE TRAUMATISED PSYCHE

When a human psyche is traumatised by unkindness, neglect and violence, it loses these basic abilities to be oriented towards reality. This leads to the person being unable to live a good life. The traumatised psyche loses its inner cohesion and becomes divided within itself. It fragments and then breaks down into three substructures (see Figure 1):

Even if a psyche is traumatised, there are fortunately still healthy psychological parts, but there are also psychological parts that remain stuck in the traumatised state of emergency, as well as trauma survival reactions and strategies that are constantly trying to escape from the unbearable reality and are therefore in a chronic state of stress.