| multiple ego states | Various psychological organizational state's reflecting different personas or life experiences. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| non-ego | <psychology> The union of being and relation as distinguished from, and contrasted with, the ego. See Ego. Origin: L, not I. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ego | Origin: L, I] The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; opposed to non-ego. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ego-alien | Repugnant to or at variance with the aims of the ego and related psychological needs of the individual (e.g., an obsessive thought or compulsive behaviour); the opposite of ego-syntonic. Synonym: ego-alien. Origin: ego + G. Dys, bad, + tonos, tension (05 Mar 2000) |
| ego analysis | Psychoanalytic study of the ways in which the ego deals with intrapsychic conflicts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ego-dystonic | Repugnant to or at variance with the aims of the ego and related psychological needs of the individual (e.g., an obsessive thought or compulsive behaviour); the opposite of ego-syntonic. Synonym: ego-alien. Origin: ego + G. Dys, bad, + tonos, tension (05 Mar 2000) |
| ego-dystonic homosexuality | A psychological or psychiatric disorder in which an individual experiences persistent distress associated with same-sex preference and a strong need to change the behaviour or, at least, to alleviate the distress associated with the homosexuality. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ego-ideal | In psychoanalysis, a more or less conscious ideal of personal excellence toward which an individual strives, and that is derived from a composite image of the personal characteristics of a parent, public figure, or one or more other individuals the person admires. The part of the personality that comprises the goals, aspirations, and aims of the self, usually growing out of the emulation of a significant person with whom one has identified. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ego identity | The ego's sense of its own identity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ego instincts | Self-preservative needs and self-love, as opposed to object love; drives that are primarily erotic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ego-syntonic | Acceptable to the aims of the ego and the related psychological needs of the individual (e.g., a delusion); the opposite of ego-dystonic. Origin: ego + G. Syn, together, + tonos, tension (05 Mar 2000) |
| adlerian psychology | A theory of human behaviour emphasizing humans' social nature, strivings for mastery, and drive to overcome, by compensation, feelings of inferiority. Synonym: adlerian psychoanalysis, adlerian psychology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adolescent psychology | Field of psychology concerned with the normal and abnormal behaviour of adolescents. It includes mental processes as well as observable responses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| analytical psychology | The theory of psychopathology and the practice of psychotherapy, according to the principles of Jung, which utilises a system of psychology and psychotherapy emphasizing man's symbolic nature, and differs from freudian psychoanalysis especially in placing less significance upon instinctual (sexual) urges. Synonym: analytical psychology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| animal psychology | A branch of psychology concerned with the study of the behaviour and physiological responses of animal organisms as a means of understanding human behaviour; some synonyms include comparative psychology, experimental psychology, and physiological psychology. (05 Mar 2000) |