Why it matters
Recasts frightening inner figures as protection rather than pathology, which changes how you meet them.
Core term · Donald Kalsched
Archetypal Defenses
Dream figures — tyrants, guardians, dark protectors — that break up experience before it can overwhelm.
Areas of life
Dreamstraumainner conflict
How to handle it
When a dream figure attacks, ask what it might be guarding.
Who shaped this idea
The thinker behind it
From concept to practice
Turn Archetypal Defenses into a question you can answer.
Psipas asks you one small, honest question at a time — and builds the picture from your answers.