Ego psychology is a school of psychoanalysis rooted in Sigmund Freud's structural id-ego-superego model of the mind. An individual interacts with the external...

"over-I". The Latin terms id, ego and superego were chosen by his original translators and have remained in use. In the ego psychology model of the psyche, the...

Jungian psychology uses the synonymous term psychic death, referring to a fundamental transformation of the psyche. In death and rebirth mythology, ego death...

In analytical psychology, the shadow (also known as ego-dystonic complex, repressed id, shadow aspect, or shadow archetype) is an unconscious aspect of...

An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality. Finding...

and interpersonal levels. Ego depletion is therefore a critical topic in experimental psychology, specifically social psychology, because it is a mechanism...

dissonant with the needs and goals of the ego, or further, in conflict with a person's ideal self-image. Abnormal psychology has studied egosyntonic and egodystonic...

the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology. Compared to her father, her work emphasized the importance of the ego and its normal "developmental lines"...

Vaillant, George (1994). "Ego mechanisms of defense and personality psychopathology" (PDF). Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 103 (1): 44–50. doi:10.1037/0021-843X...

relationship to reality, but who seemed able to test it. According to ego psychology, ego strengths, later described by Otto F. Kernberg (1975), include the...

on Freud's psychodynamic model, particularly that of the "ego states", to develop a psychology of human interactions called transactional analysis which...

In psychology, developmental stage theories are theories that divide psychological development into distinct stages which are characterized by qualitative...

The psychology of self is the study of either the cognitive, conative or affective representation of one's identity, or the subject of experience. The...

The Ego and the Mechanism of Defence, Anna Freud introduced "two original defence mechanisms...both of which have become classics of ego psychology", the...

children, possibly disguising this as a "punishment." (rationalization) Ego psychology sought to use displacement in child rearing, a dummy being used as a...

theory, regression is a defense mechanism involving the reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of psychosexual development, as a reaction to an overwhelming...

Ego state therapy is a parts-based psychodynamic approach to treat various behavioural and cognitive problems within a person. It uses techniques that...

self psychology are the concepts of empathy, selfobject, mirroring, idealising, alter ego/twinship and the tripolar self. Though self psychology also...

In Freudian Ego psychology, psychosexual development is a central element of the psychoanalytic sexual drive theory. Freud believed that personality developed...

the ego and the Unconscious. Collected Works. Vol. 7. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 172. Jung, C. G.; Keller, Adolf (2020). On Theology and Psychology: The...

and Freud's findings, so he named his theory "analytical psychology".[citation needed] The ego itself can be thought of as a complex, not yet fully integrated...

Psycho-Analysis 1920 Beyond the Pleasure Principle 1921 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego 1923 The Ego and the Id 1926 Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety...

constraints of the group as a whole. In his book Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Freud argued that the church and organized religion form...

There are three central ideas in Sufi Islamic psychology, which are the Nafs (self, ego or psyche), the Qalb (heart) and the Ruh (spirit). The origin...

by one's own admiration. Both egotists and narcissists are people whose egos are greatly influenced by the approval of others, while for egocentrists...

The Ego and the Id (German: Das Ich und das Es) is a prominent paper by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. It is an analytical study of the...

is credited with being one of the originators of ego psychology, which emphasized the role of the ego as being more than a servant of the id. Although...

Stages of the Ego". C. T. Sullivan, Freud and Fairbairn: Two theories of ego-psychology (PDF). pp. 33–47. King, Laura. The Science of Psychology (2nd ed.)...

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (German: Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse) is a 1921 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis...

fable: Toward a general model of adolescent ego development.". In Lapsley, D.K.; Power, F.C. (eds.). Self, ego, and identity: Integrative approaches. New...