ego-syntonic

Examples of ego-syntonic in the following topics:

• Introduction to Personality Disorders

  • That said, though personality disorders are typically associated with significant distress or disability, they are also ego-syntonic, which means that individuals do not feel as though their values, thoughts, and behaviors are out of place or unacceptable.

• Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

  • According to Freud, our personality develops from the interactions among what he proposed as the three fundamental structures of the human mind: the id, ego, and superego.
  • In contrast to the instinctual id and the moral superego, the ego is the rational, pragmatic part of our personality.
  • Freud believed that the nature of the conflicts among the id, ego, and superego change over time as a person grows from child to adult.
  • According to Freud's structural model, the personality is divided into the id, ego, and superego.
  • According to Freud, the job of the ego is to balance the aggressive/pleasure-seeking drives of the id with the moral control of the superego.

• Evaluating the Psychodynamic Approach to Personality

  • The mind was thought to consist of the id, ego, and superego, the interactions of which determined human personality and behavior.
  • The ego also operates both consciously and unconsciously.
  • The ego seeks balance between the id and the superego, mediating between the impulses of the id and the rigid rules imposed by the super-ego.
  • According to Freud's structural model, the personality is divided into the id, ego, and superego.

• Psychodynamic Psychology

  • Freud's structural model of personality divides the personality into three parts—the id, the ego, and the superego.
  • The ego, which has conscious and unconscious elements, is the rational and reasonable part of personality.
  • Like the ego, the superego has conscious and unconscious elements.
  • However, if the ego is unable to mediate between the id and the superego, an imbalance is believed to occur in the form of psychological distress.

• Personality Psychology

  • According to his structural theory of the mind, our personality develops from a conflict between the interacting systems within our minds, which he termed the "id" (our biological pleasure-seeking drive), "ego" (the rational part of our personality), and "superego" (our conscience and moral compass).
  • According to Freud, the job of the ego, or self, is to balance the aggressive/pleasure-seeking drives of the id with the moral control of the superego.

• Freud's Psychosexual Theory of Development

  • Freud believed that the human personality consisted of three interworking parts: the id, the ego, and the superego.
  • The ego is related to reasoning and is the conscious, rational part of the personality; it monitors behavior in order to satisfy basic desires without suffering negative consequences.

• Defining Personality

  • Psychodynamic theory, originating with Sigmund Freud, posits that human behavior is the result of the interaction among various components of the mind (the id, ego, and superego) and that personality develops according to a series of psychosexual developmental stages.
  • Sigmund Freud advanced a psychodynamic view of human personality that implicated the id, ego, and superego as the main determinants of individual differences in personality.

• A History of Theories of Consciousness

  • Each of these levels corresponds and overlaps with Freud's ideas of the id, ego, and superego.
  • This figure illustrates the respective levels of the id, ego, and superego.

• Evaluation of Psychological Therapy Options

  • The goal of this therapeutic approach is to make the unconscious conscious, and to strengthen the ego so that it is based in reality, rather than acting upon guilt.
  • The goal is to make the unconscious conscious, and strengthen the ego so that it is based in reality, rather than acting upon guilt.

• Hallucinogens

  • LSD causes a number of alterations in perception by affecting both cognitive and visual sensory systems, and it changes the sense of time, body-image, and ego.