2nd Edition

Integrated Ego Psychology

Edited By Blanche Geer Copyright 1991
390 Pages
by Routledge

375 Pages
by Routledge

375 Pages
by Routledge

Ego psychology is the aspect of psychoanalytic theory concerned with how people adapt to the demands and possibilities of their worlds in accordance with their inner requirements. All substantial theories of personality refer to adaptation, but there are several features special to ego psychology. It offers by far the most elaborate picture of the adaptive apparatus and of the varied devices... Read more
A Speed Reader’s Guide to Chapter 1; 1: Psychoanalytic Ego Psychology in Clinical Work; A Speed Reader’s Guide to Chapter 2; 2: Basic Freudian Conceptions; A Speed Reader’s Guide to Chapter 3; 3: Symptom and Defense; A Speed Reader’s Guide To Chapter 4; 4: Sources of Resiliency; A Speed Reader’s Guide to Chapter 5; 5: Character As Personality Structure; A Speed Reader’s Guide To Chapter 6; 6: Contemporary Characterology; A Speed Reader’s Guide To Chapter 7; 7: Development of the Ego; A Speed Reader’s Guide to Chapter 8; 8: The Theory of Object Relations; A Speed Reader’s Guide To Chapter 9; 9: The Pursuit and Dread of Love; A Speed Reader’s Guide To Chapter 10; 10: On Duplicity in the Interview; A Speed Reader’s Guide To Chapter 11; 11: Ego Functions in Psychodrama; A Speed Reader’s Guide To Chapter 12; 12: The Healing Powers of Speech; A Speed Reader’s Guide To Chapter 13; 13: Group Psychology; A Speed Reader’s Guide To Chapter 14; 14: Ego-Oriented Treatment; A Speed Reader’s Guide To Chapter 15; 15: Will, Choice, and Responsibility

Biography

Blanche Geer