Sentences with phrase «ego strength»

Couples with a reasonable degree of ego strength can often acquire the ability to help themselves within as few as six to ten sessions.

Each of his eight stages has its new growth tasks, conflicts, risks, and new ego strengths that develop as growth tasks are accomplished.

To illustrate, adolescents are «healthy» to the degree that they are developing a strong sense of identity with the accompanying ego strength, fidelity.

There are no / weak boundaries, impoverished ego strength, weak impulse control and reduced and sometimes delusional reality testing.

In general, the greater the degree of ego strength, the more confrontation can be accepted growth - fully by persons.

Erikson points to the crucial role of values in ego strength.

Ascertaining the relative ego strength of clients is a prerequisite to making this decision.

Such people (called «psychotics» or «borderline personalities» in traditional psychiatric nomenclature) often need a long - term supportive relationship that reinforces the effectiveness of their less reality - denying defenses and allows them to gain ego strength by coping better with everyday realities.

This functioning in interpersonal relationships eventually restores ego strength.

One's degree of ego strength changes constantly.

When persons come for help, here are some of the questions counselors should ask themselves to gain a sense of their current ego strength:

John has high ego strengths and may be viewed by some as egotistical.

Recognize how the relationships between the symbolic figures in the tray indicate the client's relative ego strength

Chronic narcissism, rather than being self - love, is really a symptom of self - doubt, self - rejection, and lack of ego strength.

Gerald, the weak are the priests and not the nuns, and also people like yourself who lack the ego strength to think for yourself or be tolerant of others.

His ego strength was low, and there seemed to be few people in his life who cared for him.

Mid-years persons are healthy to the degree that they are creating a life - style of generativity with its ego strength of care.

(1) The internal characteriological resources — the ego strength and the rationality that the patient still possesses.

(3) The family's collective identity evolves and its joint «ego strength» fluctuates with the stresses and resources of each stage of the family life cycle.

I was supervising a teacher who was enrolled in our program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst that focused on developing student self - knowledge, ego strength, trust and community in classrooms.

When I came back and walked to my seat across the warm, brightly - carpeted floor, I experienced a wonderland of painted walls and poles, and a gallery of photographs, paintings and textured wall hangings The teacher told me that the process of doing this had created trust, community and ego strength, unlike our misplaced exercises.

The fact is, everyone's handwriting reveals a great deal about their personality, social skills, thinking style, ego strengths, and much more.

While we're on the topic of emotions, Dr Richard also claims that lawyers score low on resilience, or «ego strength», meaning that they can find it difficulty to take criticism on the chin, and are imbued with a «self - protective quality».

Ongoing group of men and women ages 35 + discussing relationship issues, lonely, depressed, learning how to communicate more effectively, understand themselves, ego strength, trust building, anger management, sexual dysfunction all issues that are touched on by being involved in a relationship or loosing a relationship.

This is all fine, as long as you have the ego strength and stability to absorb hyperstimulation without being undone by it.

Stabilization efforts include reducing internal conflict within the self system, using methods to increase internal coping skills, ego strength and affect regulation, establishing external safety, and much more.

Though we do not always know what will happen when we put someone in a group, it is the leaders» assessment of readiness, ego strength, and matching of issues that play a role in creating the experience that we were fortunate to have in the two groups we have led thus far, this term.

Dr Williams expanded on this with: movement toward a secure attachment, sense of autonomy, self and object constancy, ego strength, realistic self - esteem, abiding values, affect tolerance and regulation, insight, theory of mind, sense of vitality, and acceptance.

It is also a function of our ego strength (our «emotional constitution») and personal -LSB-...]

Neurotic symptoms may occur with or without deficits in ego functions, object relations, and ego strengths.