Clinicians believe that increased self-awareness is synonymous with successful therapeutic outcome, and the reduction of self-deception is viewed as evidence of meaningful personality change. Despite this, no empirical work has been done on measuring the change in self-deceptive tendencies over the course of psychotherapy.
INTRODUCTION
By the summer of 1945 Hermann Goering, the creator of the Gestapo and of the concentrations camps, and the heir-apparent to Adolph Hitler, was incarcerated in a prison in Bondorof-Les-Barns, Luxembourg. Goering was a prime mover of many of the abhorrent atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi regime before and during World War Il.
Tam very excited about this issue. The POINT/ COUNTERPOINT format has begun with articles from our own OCPA members Christine
Padesky and. Richard Lettieri. Drs. Padesky and Lettieri have written comprehensive articles on their specialty and the treatment of personality disorders.
The twentieth witness steady accumulation of knowledge concerning the relationship between the brain and behaviour. The development occur primarily because of the need to assist the soldiers who had sustaining wartime brain injuries.In the process of treating these individuals much was learned about role of various brain regions in caring out various behaviours.
This article reviews and critiques the ego concept. Except for the modern conflict theorists, most schools of contemporary psychoanalytic thought tend to eschew metapsychology and the concept of the ego. The author reviews modern conflict theory and the functions of metapsychology and the ego. Conflict theorists assert that their approach bears little resemblance to Freud’s drive reduction model. Current…
“A moral code can be thought of as the taxonomy of sanctioned actions and behavior. The pre frontal cortex is the associated cortex of the frontal lobes, ‘the action lobes … ‘ Could it then be that, by analogy, the prefrontal cortex contains the taxonomy of all the sanctioned moral actions and behavior? And could…
G. Frank (2007) maintained that if psychoanalysts are to renew their interest in an archaic concept like the ego, 3 criticisms must be addressed: reification of the ego, the problem of impersonality, and the problem of the ego’s evolution from the id. The author addresses these criticisms directly and from within the context of an updated view of the…
The ego psychological approach to understanding mental life has evolved considerably since Freud created the discipline of psychoanalysis in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Psychologists are frequently called upon to evaluate individuals who threaten violence toward intimates.
In his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963), Martin Luther King wrote, “A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God.”
“Neurosis” is a general term used to describe various forms of mental disorders that involve symptoms of anxiety, depression, hysteria, phobia, and obsessive compulsiveness.
Masochism has broadly been defined as the enjoyment of suffering or a tendency to seek opportunity for being offended or hurt.