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Ego Psychology

Functions and Defenses

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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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