ego psychology

American  

noun

1. a school of neo-Freudian psychology holding that the ego has autonomous energy and functions independently.

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Example Sentences

The ego psychology, which we strive to understand, must not be founded upon introspective data, but rather, as in the libido, upon analysis of the disturbances and decompositions of the ego.

From Project Gutenberg

Just as significant, Freud's emphasis on the id, or man's instincts, has yielded to what the present-day therapists call ego psychology: man's relationship with his environment, a field pioneered by Anna Freud and by Hartmann.

From Time Magazine Archive

By then competing psychotherapeutic theories and approaches had begun to spring up, among them ego psychology, self-psychology, the object-relations school, interpersonal therapy and existential therapy.

From Time Magazine Archive