Emerging Indicators Of Ego Growth And Associated Resistances

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ID8333350
AuthorsDorothy Evans Holmes (0009-0005-2579-2109, 4601 Connecticut Avenue, NW #20 Washington, DC 20008, corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume44
Issue4
Pages1101-1119
Publication date1996-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/000306519604400406
PMID8987012
OpenAlexW2168821698
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

In this paper the technique of resistance analysis is extended beyond a focus on defenses against aggressive drive derivatives to include a focus on resistances based on libidinal conflicts and resistances which stem from defenses against accessing and using autonomous ego functions. For example, patients may resist progress by forming primary defenses against expression of joyful affects, increased capacity to think, and/or new possibilities for effective action. This expanded focus for analysis of resistance permits us to build a technique bridge between drive-defense perspectives and ego psychology, it highlights the need to analyze the sense of danger involved in autonomous ego functioning, and it points to a way of freeing such functioning from the influences of resistance

Action (physics) · Biology · Bridge (graph theory) · Ego psychology · Focus (optics) · Id, ego and super-ego · Resistance (ecology) · Child Therapy and Development · Ecology · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

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