Karl Jaspers introduced ideas relevant to collusion in his seminal work General Psychopathology (Allgemeine Psychopathologie), first published in 1913.
Instead, his work laid the groundwork for understanding interpersonal dynamics and the therapist's influence on the therapeutic relationship.
Dicks defined collusion as an unconscious, unresolved issue shared by two or more participants, who become interlocked in a defensive maneuver.
Finally, the author describes therapeutic aspects of couples therapy and their effect and application of the collusion concept.
She herself feels small and not worthy of love, she is fixated on him or a third person and presents herself unobtrusive, with a tendency to self-destructive behavior, for example overloading or drug use.
Their joint resistance, the common fear directs against the idea, that the fosterling must take nursing tasks towards the caretaker.
[7] From a psychological point of view every human goes through a complex developing process as a small child, that leads to a sexual identity as boy or girl.
The female partner delegates responsibility and initiative to him, but does not have to be afraid of male expectations from his side.
[9] The mating choice in the oedipal collusion is more directly tied to the opposite sex parent.
Sometimes a partner is chosen, who is completely unlike the opposite sex parent, to avoid the tight connectedness from childhood.