Ego distortion in terms of True and False Self

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-159
Author(s):  
Teri Quatman
Keyword(s):  
False Self

"To Thine Own Self Be True"--A Look at Adolescent False Self-Behavior

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Harter ◽  
D. B. Marold ◽  
N. R. Whitesell ◽  
G. Cobbs
Keyword(s):  
False Self

Can a Narcissist Ever Marry?: James Fisher and The Uninvited Guest

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Kahr
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Material ◽  
Couple Relationships ◽  
Cocktail Party ◽  
False Self ◽  
Winter's Tale ◽  
Pathological Narcissism ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Marital Partners

Few books in the burgeoning field of couple psychoanalysis have garnered as much admiration as James Fisher's The Uninvited Guest: Emerging from Narcissism towards Marriage. In this memorial essay, the author pays tribute to the late Dr Fisher and to his perennial book which explores the ways in which pathological narcissism, among other factors, inhibit the development of spousal intimacy, often destroying partnerships entirely. The author describes the creative way in which Fisher drew upon great works of literature, most notably William Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale, and T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party, as well as long-forgotten clinical material from Fisher's predecessors at the Family Discussion Bureau (forerunner of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships), in order to understand the ways in which marital partners struggle with false self couplings. The author assesses the importance of Fisher's contribution in the context of the history of couple psychoanalysis.

A Model of the Effects of Perceived Parent and Peer Support on Adolescent False Self Behavior

1996 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Harter ◽  
Donna B. Marold ◽  
Nancy R. Whitesell ◽  
Gabrielle Cobbs
Keyword(s):  
Peer Support ◽  
False Self

Between Mother and Child: A Response to Walter Stone's “Thinking About Our Work: The False Self”

Group ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
Bennett Roth
Keyword(s):  
False Self ◽  
Mother And Child

scholarly journals Golden Dawn through a psychosocial lens

HISTOREIN ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Thalia Dragonas
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Compensatory Mechanism ◽  
False Self ◽  
Psychic Life ◽  
Greek Crisis ◽  
Personal Boundaries ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
And Control

The economic and sociopolitical factors related to the current Greek crisis are translated into intrapsychic and interpersonal mechanisms in order to explain the political phenomenon of Golden Dawn. I draw on psychoanalytic concepts to reflect on how the crisis has functioned as a mechanism for the production and control of individual and collective subjectivities. I argue that the crisis has created immense insecurity and has fuelled feelings of desperation, fear and anger. For some, these feelings have been displaced onto a substitute reality offered by a transcendent group represented by Golden Dawn; personal boundaries have loosened, and subjectivities have been absorbed by a large, collective “false self”. At the centre of the notion of this substitute reality is the fantasy of omnipotence, channelled through the mechanism of projection onto the leader of the group. History is used and misused in order to cement the psychic life of the group and as a compensatory mechanism for the felt national shame. Moreover, collective denigration, or even extinction, of immigrants serves to displace negative feelings and impulses onto the “other”. I borrow Freud’s contention that when evil is not condemned, raw and wild impulses are let loose –hence, the assassination of a leftwing rapper that has landed Golden Dawn in court.

Perception of "False Self" Scale

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsty F. Weir ◽  
Paul E. Jose
Keyword(s):  
False Self

Healing the ‘split’: trauma as a dynamic in psychosis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Franco ◽  
Lindsey Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Paranoid Schizophrenia ◽  
Process Thought ◽  
False Self ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
As If

In this article, the first author uses an autobiographical account of a trauma she experienced and shows how, in her understanding, this led to her developing what was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia. The trauma forced her to accept a distortion of her understanding of reality, which, she explains, caused a split in her ego between the inner truth of the event and the imposed distortion. She considers Freud’s theory of how trauma develops and looks at how it applies to her case. Using Winnicott’s theory of there being a ‘false self’ in psychosis, she shows how a false self was formed out of the distortion. Bion’s understanding of the development of thought applied to trauma is used to give insight into how the mind finds it difficult to process thought when a trauma occurs and, using Brown’s understanding, she indicates how this is similar to what happens in psychosis. She utilizes Winnicott’s explanation of there being a trauma not lived through, as if not experienced, being present in psychosis and how the need to experience, ‘remember’, this trauma is for healing to take place. In conclusion, she argues how the reaching and establishing of the inner truth is what is needed for recovery to happen and for the split in the ego to heal.

Infantile Neurosis as a False-Self Organization

2018 ◽  
pp. 219-233
Author(s):  
M. Masud R. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Self Organization ◽  
False Self
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