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consciousness
consciousness in psychology, a term commonly used to indicate a state of awareness of self and environment. In Freudian psychology, conscious behavior largely includes cognitive processes of the ego, such as thinking, perception, and planning, as well as some aspects of the superego, such as moral ... Read more
unconscious
unconscious in psychology, that aspect of mental life that is separate from immediate consciousness and is not subject to recall at will. Sigmund Freud regarded the unconscious as a submerged but vast portion of the mind. In his view, the unconscious was composed of the id, which accounts for i... Read more
Edward Bradford Titchener
Edward Bradford Titchener , 1867-1927, American psychologist, b. Chichester, England, grad. Oxford, 1890. He studied in Leipzig (Ph.D. 1892) under Wundt (whose Principles of Physiological Psychology he translated), and in 1892 he became head of the new psychological laboratory at Cornell, where he... Read more
psychology
psychology science or study of the thought processes and behavior of humans and other animals in their interaction with the environment. Psychologists study processes of sense perception , thinking, learning , cognition, emotions and motivations , personality , abnormal behavior, interactions b... Read more
George Trumbull Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd 1842-1921, American philosopher, b. Painesville, Ohio, grad. Western Reserve Univ., 1864, and Andover Theological Seminary, 1869. He taught at Yale from 1881 until his retirement in 1906. Influenced by Hermann Lotze, he worked primarily in experimental psychology and founded th... Read more
Granville Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall 1844-1924, American psychologist and educator, b. Ashfield, Mass., grad. Williams, 1867. G. Stanley Hall taught at Antioch and Harvard, studied experimental psychology in Germany, and in 1882 organized at Johns Hopkins a psychological laboratory that rapidly took a leading po... Read more
Kurt Lewin
Kurt Lewin , 1890-1947, American psychologist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1914. He taught at the Univ. of Berlin before coming to the United States in 1932. He was professor (1935-44) of child psychology at the Univ. of Iowa and director (from 1944) of the research center for group dynamics ... Read more
denial
denial in psychology, an ego defense mechanism that operates unconsciously to resolve emotional conflict, and to allay anxiety by refusing to perceive the more unpleasant aspects of external reality. In the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud , denial is described as a primitive defense mechan... Read more
Edward Lee Thorndike
Edward Lee Thorndike , 1874-1949, American educator and psychologist, b. Williamsburg, Mass., grad. Wesleyan Univ., 1895, and Harvard, 1896, Ph.D. Columbia, 1898. Appointed instructor in genetic psychology at Teachers College, Columbia, in 1899, he served there until 1940 (as professor from 1904 and... Read more
hypochondria
hypochondria , in psychology, a disorder characterized by an exaggeration of imagined or negligible physical ailment. The hypochondriac fears that such minor symptoms indicate a serious disease, and tends to be self-centered and socially withdrawn. Continually seeking professional help to reinforce ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "ego psychology"

ego
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ego In the history of philosophy and pre-Freudian psychology, the word ‘ego’ (Latin for ‘I’...by what Kant called the noumenal ego , a part of one's own self that...investigation. Unlike the phenomenal ego , which was perceptible to self... Read more
Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health PSYCHOLOGY The field of psychology plays an integral role in public health, providing treatment...these individuals focus on development of coping skills, ego strength, improved self-esteem, and other traits needed to...treatment programs for the public also fall within the realm of psychology. In ... Read more
denial
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition in psychology, an ego defense mechanism that operates unconsciously to resolve emotional conflict...occurrence of denial among small children and explained that the mature ego does not continue to make extensive use of denial, because it conflicts... Read more
Denial
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...feelings. Theory of denial In psychology, denial is a concept originating...influence human behavior: the id, ego, and superego. The id consists...gratification of desires. The ego consists of logical and rational...different goals (id, pleasure; ego, reality; superego, morality... Read more
consciousness
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition in psychology, a term commonly used to indicate a state of awareness of self and environment. In Freudian psychology, conscious behavior largely includes cognitive processes of the ego, such as thinking, perception, and planning, as well as some... Read more
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...John Geirland of Wired . "The ego falls away. Time flies. Every...your skills to the utmost." Psychology as a discipline is more often...Csikszentmihalyi published Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience in 1990...the academic discipline of psychology. Played Chess as Escape Mihaly... Read more
Freud, Anna (1895 – 1982)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...of child development, and ego psychology. Anna Freud published the...strengthening the child's ego. The book also criticized...child analysis. Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense...her father's concept of the ego and forged her reputation as a pioneer of ego ... Read more
personality
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition in psychology, the patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion unique to an individual...human mind could be divided into three significant components—the id, the ego, and the superego—which work together (or come into conflict) to shape... Read more
unconscious
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition in psychology, that aspect of mental life that is separate from immediate consciousness...impulses. Conscious cognitive processes, such as thinking, are performed by the ego and part of the superego (see psychoanalysis ). Conflict between conscious... Read more
Jakob Friedrich Fries
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...a chain which gradually transformed psychology from metaphysics to empiricism, from...faith, basing critical philosophy on psychology and substituting self-observation for...processes themselves as being the data that psychology had best study. The modern reader can...processes, although depending upon a ... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "ego psychology"

ego
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ego. Contrary to what is sometimes believed, Buddhism does not deny the existence of the ego or seek to obliterate it. However, Buddhist psychology does teach that the sense of self-identity corresponding to the Western concept of the ego is an intellectual construct rather than an eternal self or... Read more
self-psychology
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology self-psychology A development in American psychoanalysis pioneered by H. Kohut ( The Analysis of the Self , 1971) which shifts the focus of analysis from the ego to the self—basically one's sense of wholeness and togetherness... Read more
Freud, Sigmund
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...His influence on modern psychology has also been immense but...hostility, by mainstream psychology, which has been dominated...increasingly interested in psychology, hypnosis, and the ‘...manifestation of the social super-ego (see Totem and Taboo , 1913...typical. Finally, in Group ... Read more
collective behaviour
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...formulations of collective behaviour are to be found in crowd psychology. Gustave Le Bon, in The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind...The primal father is the group ideal, which governs the ego in the place of the ego ideal’ (‘Group Psychology and the Analysis of the ... Read more
Manas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...tattva ) of manas together with intellect (buddhi) and ego ( ahaṃkāra ) makes up a threefold ‘inner instrument’ ( antaḥkarana ). In Buddhist psychology, manas is the rational or intellectual faculty of the mind... Read more
infancy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...deaths during the first year following birth. Similarly in psychology, infancy commonly refers to the first year of life, although...experiences of the first year as essential to satisfactory ego development—ideas developed more fully by psychoanalytic... Read more
conscience
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...of conscience that man realizes his independence of conventional and social codes. Modern psychology regards conscience as the activity of the super-ego, which is formed in childhood and represses drives that are socially unacceptable. Nevertheless... Read more
personality
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...version, delineates a tripartite personality structure of id, ego, and superego. Behaviour is the result of the dynamic interplay of the forces of id, ego, and superego, and the individual's personality is determined...to the exploration of personality dynamics. Within academic psychology, nomothetic ... Read more
self
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...boundaries of the self-concept refer to the so-called ‘ego-extensions’ to which it is applied, such as shame in...clothes. The concept is also used in therapy, counselling, and psychology in somewhat different ways, highlighting the self as an inner... Read more

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Critical psychology and the question of subjectivity.
Magazine article from: Critical Psychology; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; In this paper, I suggest that critical psychology is fundamentally a critique of psychology. More specifically, critical psychology can function as a critique of and an alternative to natural science, medical model approaches to psychology, as well as humanistic and Marxist paradigms. ... Read more
Erik Erikson and the American psyche; ego, ethics, and evolution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 114 words ; ...Erik Erikson and the American psyche; ego, ethics, and evolution. Burston, Daniel...BF109 Despite ambivalence toward the ego psychology for which Erikson (1902-1994) is known, Burston (psychology, Duquesne U., Pittsburgh) analyzes his... Read more
Psychology I.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...years. There was not even a suggestion, in any of the psychology texts we read or discussions we had in class, that...bottom line is that the dominant concern of modern psychology with self-fulfillment , self-actualization , has...overly selfish individuals, for which he believes psychology must take ... Read more
ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT STYLE AND EGO IDENTITY, ATTRIBUTIONAL STYLE, AND FAMILY OF ORIGIN IN FIRST-YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS.
Magazine article from: College Student Journal; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...cognitive attributional style, ego identity, attachment to primary...more likely to have achieved ego identity status, to rate their...over the past decade in social psychology has supported the proposition...formation of a satisfactory personal ego identity (Bennion & Adams... Read more
Transcending Self-Interest.(Transcending Self-Interest: Psychological Explorations of the Quiet Ego )(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 6/1/2008; 196 words ; ...Transcending Self-Interest: Psychological Explorations of the Quiet Ego is an anthology of essays by learned psychologists discussing...identity. Individual essays include The Lure of the Noisy Ego: Narcissism as a Social Trap , Collective Angst: How Threats...Emotion , Homonegativity and the Lesbian Self: ... Read more
GOP convention seen as boost to city's ego: but few real estate officials are anticipating major impact to industry.(the 2004 Republican convention will most likely take place in New York)
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 1/15/2003; ; 331 words ; ...have much bearing on the city's long-term economic health, even if it will be a nice boost to the ego. It could be very good for New York's psychology, but the economic side of it is not great, noted Kenneth Patton, dean of New York University's... Read more
Freud's couch: the psychology of office design. (Small Business Advisor).
Magazine article from: Utah Business; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...extravagant executive leather chairs, notes Persch. It was an ego thing. Back in 1978, they would spend $1,100 on their chair...sense of collaboration with no head and no foot. The third psychology of office design is very casual. A sofa, club chairs and a... Read more
The psychology of the winning franchisee: a top racehorse driven by the right jockey can be slowed down enough and trained enough to win races.(FOCUS: Franchise Development)
Magazine article from: Franchising World; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...the role. * Assertiveness * Aggressiveness * Ego-Drive * Risk Taking * Urgency [GRAPHIC OMITTED...Balance here is extremely important. Simply put, ego-drive is the need to get the yes. An individual with ego-drive wants the yes as a key means of gaining... Read more
Alter ego: since 1970 'ed psych' has taken over education. Baby boomers, meet John Dewey.(Back to School)
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/30/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...weeded out, leaving young people who knew more about ed psych than their subject area. Child psychology, adolescent psychology, educational psychology, behavioral psychology -- when I left graduate school in 1972, psychology courses already... Read more
Psychiatry's valid but dishonest reconsiderations.(Psychology)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...gay community and others, homosexuality was removed as a mental disorder, but self-diagnosed involuntary homosexuality--called ego-dystonic homosexuality--remained until it, too, was removed. There were no scientific studies which adumbrated the change, only... Read more