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- An important set of modifications of classical psychoanalysis, based on a
conception of the human being as having a stronger, more autonomous ego with
gratifications independent of id satisfactions. Sometimes called ego psychology.
- Intensive psychoanalytic study and analysis of the ways in which the ego
resolves or attempts to deal with intrapsychic conflicts, especially in relation
to the development of mental mechanisms and the maturation of capacity for
rational thought and action. Modern psychoanalysis gives more emphasis to
considerations of the defensive operations of the ego than did earlier
techniques, which emphasized instinctual forces to a greater degree.
Source: Edgerton, Jane E. 1994. American Psychiatric Glossary, 7th Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press
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