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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’...authorities but by what Kant called the noumenal ego , a part of one's own self that could be shown...
Freud, Anna (1895–1982)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...theories of child development, and ego psychology. Anna Freud published the first...aimed at strengthening the child's ego. The book also criticized the techniques...her reputation as a pioneer of ego psychology, a theory which dominated American...
temperament
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...dimensions — including relative ego strength, radicalism–conservatism...the 1950s to 1960s, psychoanalytic ego psychology, personality psychology, and cognitive psychology have all become more interested in the phenomena...
Ariès, Philippe (1914-1984)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...life and an emerging crisis of adolescence in contemporary society. It also accorded well with the current vogue of ego psychology as epitomized in Erik Erikson's theory about the lifelong psychosocial growth of the individual. Among historians...
Equilibrium in Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Equilibrium in Psychology The concept of equilibrium...in diverse domains of psychology. At a basic physiological...ity — the id, ego, and superego —...x2019; s analytical psychology. It specifies that one...
Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health PSYCHOLOGY The field of psychology plays an integral role in public...on development of coping skills, ego strength, improved self-esteem...public also fall within the realm of psychology. In addition, psychologists conduct...
denial
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition denial in psychology, an ego defense mechanism that operates unconsciously to resolve emotional...occurrence of denial among small children and explained that the mature ego does not continue to make extensive use of denial, because it conflicts...
Otto Rank
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Associations (1958). Fay Berger Karpf, The Psychology and Psychotherapy of Otto Rank (1953...will therapy is the chapter "Rank's Will Psychology" in Lovell Langstroth, Structure of the Ego (1955). Additional Sources Lieberman...
consciousness
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition consciousness in psychology, a term commonly used to indicate a state...awareness of self and environment. In Freudian psychology, conscious behavior largely includes cognitive processes of the ego, such as thinking, perception, and planning...
Jakob Friedrich Fries
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...basing critical philosophy on psychology and substituting self-observation...themselves as being the data that psychology had best study. The modern...although depending upon a pure ego or self, are never known...Brett, Brett's History of Psychology, edited and abridged by R...

Dictionary entries related to "ego psychology"

Ego Psychology
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis EGO PSYCHOLOGY Publication of The Ego and...of the mind, ushered ego psychology into psychoanalytic theory...development. Therapy in ego psychology seeks to increase...technical implication of ego psychology is that the therapist should...
Ego-Psychology and the Psychoses
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis EGO-PSYCHOLOGY AND THE PSYCHOSES Ego-Psychology and the Psychoses consists of Edoardo Weiss's compilation of sixteen of Paul Federn's papers on ego psychology, his primary field. Federn (1871-1950), a member...
Ego (Ego Psychology)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis EGO (EGO PSYCHOLOGY) The theories of the ego...under the rubric of "ego psychology" originated in Vienna...death the notion of the ego eventually became the central...Further research into the psychology of the ego was undertaken...
Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis EGO PSYCHOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF ADAPTATION...the entire field of the psychology of consciousness, and in...hypothesis of a conflict-free ego implies an autonomous status...Heinz. (1958). Ego psychology and the problem of adaptation...
Ego (Analytical Psychology)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis EGO (ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY) Carl Gustav Jung proposed...existence of a strong enough ego that can allow itself to...appropriate maturation of the ego, and it is principally...Individuation and Narcissism: The Psychology of the Self in Jung and...
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO Sigmund Freud's second essay, after Totem and Taboo (1912-13a), on collective psychology, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego is perhaps his fundamental...
Ego Feeling
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis EGO FEELING Ego feeling...Federn's ego psychology, together with...the concept of ego feeling is one...Paul Federn's ego psychology in psychoanalytic...Federn's ego psychology in a contemporary...1953). Medical psychology (David Rapaport...
Ego Functions
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Enumeration of the ego's functions pointed...the detriment of id psychology. This was a deviation...of modifying the ego in important ways...1956). The ego concept in Freud...1958). Ego psychology and the problem of...Essays on ego psychology . New York: International...
Ego States
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...aware of only one ego state at a given...Regression to earlier ego states is one of...of Paul Federn's ego psychology in psychoanalytic...Psychoanalytic psychiatry and psychology . New York: International...Studies concerning the psychology and symptomatology...
Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence, The
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis EGO AND THE MECHANISMS...integrate analysis into psychology, to create what she...the proponents of ego psychology (Hartmann, Kris...Anna. (1937). The ego and the mechanisms...on psychoanalytic psychology . New York: International...

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The American Independent Tradition: Loewald, Erikson, and the (Possible) Rise of Intersubjective Ego Psychology
Magazine article from: Psychoanalytic Dialogues; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Tradition," intersubjective ego psychology, in the work of Loewald and Erikson...antagonistic schools-Hartmannian ego psychology and Sullivanian interpersonal...psychoanalysis. Intersubjective ego psychology, exemplified in the work of these...
Test-retest stability of the Task and Ego Orientation questionnaire.(Psychology)
Magazine article from: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...reproducibility using the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire...retest correlation for the Ego subscale than the Task subscale...variance indicated stability for ego items but with significant increases...methods in sport and exercise psychology. The Biddle et al. (2001...
Meyer is really author Travis McGee's alter ego, writes Raymond Fowler in November issue of Psychology Today.
PR Newswire; 10/20/1986; 673 words ; ...not MacDonald's alter ego as many have speculated...November) issue of Psychology Today, that "Meyer and...books." Fowler writes in Psychology Today that though McGee...516-374-4230, for Psychology Today/
"Selflessness" in the service of the ego: Contributions, limitations and dangers of Buddhist psychology for western psychotherapy
Magazine article from: American Journal of Psychotherapy; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Buddhist psychology has now gained some credence...the dissolution of their ego and its propelling forces...the interface of Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapies...equipped to lecture on psychology than I. This is the psychology...
Quaestio disputata: toward a psychology of grace. (analysis of W.W. Meissner's interaction of ego and divine grace) (includes Meissner's reply)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 6/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...step in the dialogue between psychology and theology. First, my response...the interaction between the ego's functioning and divine grace...succession of the various "ego-strengths" or "virtues...maintain a balance between the ego and the impulses pertaining...
Assessing ego strength: Spinning straw into gold
Magazine article from: Perspectives in Psychiatric Care; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; TOPIC. The reexamination of ego function from the perspective of ego strength rather than ego deficit. PURPOSE. To promote the assessment...literature of modern psychoanalysis and ego psychology, Bellak's research on ego function...
Inner Strengths: Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego Strengthening
Magazine article from: American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego Strengthening. Claire Frederick...Frederick and McNeal illuminate Ego-State Theory and psychotherapy...object relations approaches, ego psychology, self-psychology, cognitive-- behavior therapy...
An introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming
Magazine article from: American Journal of Psychotherapy; 7/1/1998; ; 416 words ; ...contrasted with those of Adler (Individual Psychology), Medard Boss (Existential Psychoanalysis), Thomas French/Erich Fromm (Ego Psychology), and Frederick Perls (Gestalt Psychology). There is a summary of the most recent...
A dialogue between psychology and religion in the work of Moshe Halevi Spero, an Orthodox Jewish psychoanalyst.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...from a classical stance, through ego psychology (and questions of identity...somewhat blurring the line between psychology and theology. Over the course...Orthodox Judaism in relation to psychology to a more general concern with...
Erik Erikson and the American psyche; ego, ethics, and evolution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 443 words ; ...Erik Erikson and the American psyche; ego, ethics, and evolution. Burston...BF109 Despite ambivalence toward the ego psychology for which Erikson (1902-1994) is known, Burston (psychology, Duquesne U., Pittsburgh) analyzes...