Sentences with phrase «ego psychological concepts»

Finally, ego psychological concepts of deficit in functioning led to refinements in supportive therapy.

Ego psychological concepts of deficit in functioning led to refinements in supportive therapy.

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Berne's second major concept is that of ego - states; he says that our behavior patterns, with their associated feelings, are «a limited repertoire... which are psychological realities... [the products of] the human brain... are organized and stored in the form of ego - states.»

In Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida returns to Freud's concept of the three traumas inflicted on human narcissism that continue to haunt modern subjectivity, the three intellectual revolutions that have de-centered the ego: the cosmological trauma (the Copernican subject no longer stands at the center of the universe; the biological trauma (the Darwinian subject is no longer at the apex of evolution); and the psychological trauma (the Freudian subject possesses an unconscious and is no longer master even of himself).