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Ego Psychology
Functions and Defenses
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Id | desires, impulses, pleasure principle |
| Ego | reality, negotiating between Id and Superego; structure, motivational system |
| Supergo | moral development, learned from systems, development of conscience |
| Reality Testing | Ego Function; ability to differentiate what is subjective to self fantasy and objective to the outside world. e.g.: belief that teacher continually calls on student to embarrass them. |
| Judgement | Ego Function; ability to make age appropriate decisions; ability to act appropriately on the outside world. |
| Sense of reality of the world and self | Ego Function; depersonalization and feeling outside of oneself are impairments; placement of self in the world; |
| Regulation and control of drives, affects, and impulses | Ego Function; able to manage impulse control; impairment can be either extreme: restriction to impulsive; effected by the Id |
| Object relations | Ego Function; relationships with other people; e.g.:hallucinations, delusions, word salad; related to the development of the internal self; need someone else to feel whole |
| Thought processes | Ego Function; normal abilities in thoughts and processing towards stimuli, symbols, etc. Primary thought processes=extreme (schizophrenia); Secondary TP is logical. |
| Adaptive regression in service of the ego | Ego Function; handling stress within normal range (taking a nape due to stress) vs. inability to handle stress (heightened responses) |
| Defensive functioning | Ego Function; overall ability to utilize ego defenses appropriately; |
| Stimulus barrier | Ego Function; ability to tune out environmental happenings so it is optimal and can regulate/maintain normal level of functioning |
| Autonomous functioning | Ego function; ability to utilize individual ego functions; mastery; compartmentalize ego functions |
| Mastery competence | Ego Function; having sense/ability to master tasks; coping capacity strongly connected |
| Synthetic integrative functioning | Ego Function; ability to put multiple ego functions together (personality that interacts with the outside world appropriately) |
| Ego Defenses | Falls under defensive functioning; are not conscious; protect individuals from anxiety/threats of external world; should not impair reality testing; can be effective or maladaptive; related to personality development; NOT coping mechanisms. |
| Repression | Ego Defense: unconscious decision to place a memory/experience into the unconscious. |
| Reaction formation | Ego Defense: replacing impulse with it's opposite; attributing the opposite to someone compared to what you actually feel. |
| Denial | Ego Defense: extreme inability to connect to reality |
| Projection | Ego Defense: attributing something (unacceptable thoughts/feelings) that you are experiencing onto someone else; |
| Isolation | Ego Defense: tagging an emotion to something that has no real connection to the cause/context |
| Undoing | Ego Defense: doing a good deed for a bad behavior (over compensating) |
| Regression | Ego Defense: reverse development |
| Introjection | Ego Defense: identifying with another person and internalizing and incorporating that identity into oneself |
| Turning against the self | Ego Defense: turning feelings towards someone else onto the self |
| Reversal | Ego Defense: opposite action to create better results, but feel guilty about it |
| Sublimation | Ego Defense: taking a negative action and turning it into a positive (aggressive person becomes a boxer) |
| Rationalization | Ego Defense: making excuses for behavior |
| Displacement | Ego Defense: taking action out on a different person |
| Somatization | Ego Defense: physical symptoms |
| Idealization | Ego Defense: Unrealistic overvaluing of someone that shouldn't be |
| Compensation | Ego Defense: using actions to cover up feelings of inadequacies |
| Splitting | Ego Defense: Black or white; either/or (common with people with borderline personality disorder) |
| Projective Identification | Ego Defense: feeling an emotion that may be what the client is actually experiencing but for different reasons. (ex: worker feelings trapped in the work and client feels trapped in their life) |
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