Ego psychology is a school of psychoanalysis rooted in Sigmund Freud's structural id-ego-superego model of the mind. An individual interacts with the external...

"over-I". The Latin terms id, ego and superego were chosen by his original translators and have remained in use. In the ego psychology model of the psyche, the...

Jungian psychology uses the synonymous term psychic death, referring to a fundamental transformation of the psyche. In death and rebirth mythology, ego death...

In analytical psychology, the shadow (also known as ego-dystonic complex, repressed id, shadow aspect, or shadow archetype) is an unconscious aspect of...

An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality. Finding...

and interpersonal levels. Ego depletion is therefore a critical topic in experimental psychology, specifically social psychology, because it is a mechanism...

dissonant with the needs and goals of the ego, or further, in conflict with a person's ideal self-image. Abnormal psychology has studied egosyntonic and egodystonic...

the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology. Compared to her father, her work emphasized the importance of the ego and its normal "developmental lines"...

relationship to reality, but who seemed able to test it. According to ego psychology, ego strengths, later described by Otto F. Kernberg (1975), include the...

Vaillant, George (1994). "Ego mechanisms of defense and personality psychopathology" (PDF). Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 103 (1): 44–50. doi:10.1037/0021-843X...