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BROOK · 08-06-2009, 10:59 PM

But that is not "New age disinfo"

From the medical field

Ego-syntonic

Ego-syntonic: Acceptable to the aims of the ego and the related psychological needs of the person (e.g., a delusion); the opposite of ego-dystonic. [ego + G. syn, together, + tonos, tension]

Ego /superego /id

Ego /superego /id: ego is component of the personality structure which is the self, or the "I" which the individual experiences as oneself; the id is the component which harbors the unconscious instinctive desires and strivings of the individual; the superego is component associated with ethics, standards, and self-criticism - the "conscience", derived mainly from identification with [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]parents[/color][/color] and parent substitutes.
Source: CRISP

Source:
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/medica...uperego_id.htm

Look to patient's ego defense for diagnostic clues

SAN ANTONIO -- Analysis of a patient's ego defense mechanisms can provide valuable clues to diagnosis, Dr. Thomas P. Beresford said at the annual meeting of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine.
Different defense mechanisms are characteristic of different levels of psychological functioning, from primitive through mature, and they can allow for a practical and rapid way of determining how well adjusted a patient is, said Dr. Beresford, director of the Laboratory for Clinical Research in Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.

According to a model first advanced by Anna Freud, stress causes perturbations in the ego's homeostasis, causing anxiety. The unconscious mind chimes in with ego defense mechanisms, which allow the ego to deal with the anxiety and respond to the stress.
Dr. Beresford recommends a three-step approach in determining whether a given defense mechanism is primitive, immature, neurotic, or mature. (See chart.)
First, the psychiatrist should determine whether the patient recognizes whether there's a problem. If so, the psychiatrist should determine whether the patient recognizes that the problem is his or her problem. If so, the psychiatrist should determine whether or not the patient is properly integrating the affect and the cognition associated with the problem.
People operating at a primitive level will refuse to acknowledge the existence of the stressor. This is normal in young children. When a child is asked whether he has defecated in his pants, he might respond simply by running away (avoidance) or by saying no in the face of obvious contrary evidence (concrete denial). In a young child, these defense mechanisms are normal, but in an adult they may indicate psychosis, delirium, dementia, or organic brain pathology People operating at an immature level will acknowledge the existence of a stressor but will insist that the problem belongs to someone else.
Dr. Beresford advised, "If someone is acting like a jerk, do a cognitive exam." He shared, by example. the story of a patient who was disliked by the entire medical team but was found, on further examination, to exhibit some cognitive deficits. As it happened, he recently had been given a tracheotomy that was too small, so he e was not getting enough oxygen. After the tracheotomy was enlarged, his cognitive state improved.
People operating at a neurotic level will acknowledge the existence of a stressor and will agree that the problem belongs to them, but they will not be able to integrate the associated affect and cognition. Such a patient might have an overly intellectual response to being told that she has a serious illness (isolation of affect), or might respond to a fear of heights by becoming a skydiver (reaction formation).
Finally, those who operate at a mature level will acknowledge the existence of a stressor, will agree that the problem belongs to them, and will be able to integrate the associated affect and cognition. Such persons may respond to stressors with self-deprecating humor, by sublimating it (in created artworks, for instance), or by noting anxiety and suppressing it until it is more convenient to deal with it effectively "Suppression is the 747 of defenses. It carries the most people," Dr. Beresford said.
In Dr. Beresford's view, analysis of ego defense mechanisms provides an alternative to focusing narrowly on phenomenology or on medical issues while performing a differential diagnosis. Focusing solely on the DSM-IV, he said, is "the Chinese restaurant approach to diagnosis, where you have two [symptoms], one from Column A and one from Column B, and then you have your diagnosis." Focusing on ego defense mechanisms, on the other hand, comes from the schools of depth psychology and psychoanalysis, and the goal is to determine what exactly is going on with a patient.

source:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n28900533/

So-called complex ego-functions, psychic cross findings and valuation of efficiency in medical expert assessment of psychogenic diseases]

Medizinischen Gutachteninstitut, Hamburg.
Medical expert assessment of a disease-induced disability requires the integrative examination of own and outside anamnestic data, file content and psychic cross-findings received in the assessment interview, if necessary completed by results of psychologic testing. The measure of disability with regard to psychogenic diseases is the impairment of the so-called complex ego-functions because they make it possible to judge someone's will which is available to overcome his inhibitions concerning achievement. This case report describes how to determine and present an impairment of complex ego-functions on the finding level. It is the author's view that it is desirable to operationalise this way of receiving findings with the aim of achieving obligatory criteria for granting payment to every insured person.

source:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16180533

No new age "fluff" about the ego and it's effect on the self

The Ego and Inner Self
Ultimately, the underlying structure needs to be changed, which means to create lasting success, we need to confront the Ego and balance it with the Inner Self . I help people to find their true Inner Nature which creates enough space to be able to recognize the Ego (Left-Brained); i.e., that part of your mind that is practical, analytical and is most comfortable solving problems, which means it constantly expects them. It, a persona, has an insatiable need to feel special and is defined by external factors which means that it locks us into in a dependency of constant approval and feedback. It likes to keep doing things and proving itself, which can result in some pretty hard lessons.

source:
http://www.ehealing.us/mind_patterns.html

08-06-2009, 10:59 PM	#3
BROOK Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 3,117	Re: New Age Disinformation But that is not "New age disinfo" From the medical field Ego-syntonic Ego-syntonic: Acceptable to the aims of the ego and the related psychological needs of the person (e.g., a delusion); the opposite of ego-dystonic. [ego + G. syn, together, + tonos, tension] Ego /superego /id Ego /superego /id: ego is component of the personality structure which is the self, or the "I" which the individual experiences as oneself; the id is the component which harbors the unconscious instinctive desires and strivings of the individual; the superego is component associated with ethics, standards, and self-criticism - the "conscience", derived mainly from identification with [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]parents[/color][/color] and parent substitutes. Source: CRISP Source: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/medica...uperego_id.htm Look to patient's ego defense for diagnostic clues SAN ANTONIO -- Analysis of a patient's ego defense mechanisms can provide valuable clues to diagnosis, Dr. Thomas P. Beresford said at the annual meeting of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. Different defense mechanisms are characteristic of different levels of psychological functioning, from primitive through mature, and they can allow for a practical and rapid way of determining how well adjusted a patient is, said Dr. Beresford, director of the Laboratory for Clinical Research in Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. According to a model first advanced by Anna Freud, stress causes perturbations in the ego's homeostasis, causing anxiety. The unconscious mind chimes in with ego defense mechanisms, which allow the ego to deal with the anxiety and respond to the stress. Dr. Beresford recommends a three-step approach in determining whether a given defense mechanism is primitive, immature, neurotic, or mature. (See chart.) First, the psychiatrist should determine whether the patient recognizes whether there's a problem. If so, the psychiatrist should determine whether the patient recognizes that the problem is his or her problem. If so, the psychiatrist should determine whether or not the patient is properly integrating the affect and the cognition associated with the problem. People operating at a primitive level will refuse to acknowledge the existence of the stressor. This is normal in young children. When a child is asked whether he has defecated in his pants, he might respond simply by running away (avoidance) or by saying no in the face of obvious contrary evidence (concrete denial). In a young child, these defense mechanisms are normal, but in an adult they may indicate psychosis, delirium, dementia, or organic brain pathology People operating at an immature level will acknowledge the existence of a stressor but will insist that the problem belongs to someone else. Dr. Beresford advised, "If someone is acting like a jerk, do a cognitive exam." He shared, by example. the story of a patient who was disliked by the entire medical team but was found, on further examination, to exhibit some cognitive deficits. As it happened, he recently had been given a tracheotomy that was too small, so he e was not getting enough oxygen. After the tracheotomy was enlarged, his cognitive state improved. People operating at a neurotic level will acknowledge the existence of a stressor and will agree that the problem belongs to them, but they will not be able to integrate the associated affect and cognition. Such a patient might have an overly intellectual response to being told that she has a serious illness (isolation of affect), or might respond to a fear of heights by becoming a skydiver (reaction formation). Finally, those who operate at a mature level will acknowledge the existence of a stressor, will agree that the problem belongs to them, and will be able to integrate the associated affect and cognition. Such persons may respond to stressors with self-deprecating humor, by sublimating it (in created artworks, for instance), or by noting anxiety and suppressing it until it is more convenient to deal with it effectively "Suppression is the 747 of defenses. It carries the most people," Dr. Beresford said. In Dr. Beresford's view, analysis of ego defense mechanisms provides an alternative to focusing narrowly on phenomenology or on medical issues while performing a differential diagnosis. Focusing solely on the DSM-IV, he said, is "the Chinese restaurant approach to diagnosis, where you have two [symptoms], one from Column A and one from Column B, and then you have your diagnosis." Focusing on ego defense mechanisms, on the other hand, comes from the schools of depth psychology and psychoanalysis, and the goal is to determine what exactly is going on with a patient. source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m.../ai_n28900533/ So-called complex ego-functions, psychic cross findings and valuation of efficiency in medical expert assessment of psychogenic diseases] Medizinischen Gutachteninstitut, Hamburg. Medical expert assessment of a disease-induced disability requires the integrative examination of own and outside anamnestic data, file content and psychic cross-findings received in the assessment interview, if necessary completed by results of psychologic testing. The measure of disability with regard to psychogenic diseases is the impairment of the so-called complex ego-functions because they make it possible to judge someone's will which is available to overcome his inhibitions concerning achievement. This case report describes how to determine and present an impairment of complex ego-functions on the finding level. It is the author's view that it is desirable to operationalise this way of receiving findings with the aim of achieving obligatory criteria for granting payment to every insured person. source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16180533 No new age "fluff" about the ego and it's effect on the self The Ego and Inner Self Ultimately, the underlying structure needs to be changed, which means to create lasting success, we need to confront the Ego and balance it with the Inner Self . I help people to find their true Inner Nature which creates enough space to be able to recognize the Ego (Left-Brained); i.e., that part of your mind that is practical, analytical and is most comfortable solving problems, which means it constantly expects them. It, a persona, has an insatiable need to feel special and is defined by external factors which means that it locks us into in a dependency of constant approval and feedback. It likes to keep doing things and proving itself, which can result in some pretty hard lessons. source: http://www.ehealing.us/mind_patterns.html Last edited by BROOK; 08-06-2009 at 11:23 PM.