(n.) The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.
Example Sentences:
(1) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(2) The defensive modifications of the functions of the ego itself seen in micropsia are closely allied to those seen in the dèjá vu experience and in depersonalization.
(3) Disabled men also were more depressed and anxious and had lower ego strength and higher hypochondriasis scores on the MMPI, but were no different in type A behavior.
(4) Some aspects of the life structure, of course, are also unconscious, namely, those having to do with attempted solutions to core personality conflicts and those reflecting modes of ego functioning.
(5) This preliminary study compared the level of ego development, as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), of 30 women with histories of childhood sexual victimization, and 30 women with no history of abuse.
(6) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
(7) This search represents movement beyond the significance of infantile wish-fulfillment aspects of religiosity toward the broader domain of ego functioning and quality of object relations.
(8) The evidence suggests that early deficiencies of biology, environmental support, and ego strength contribute to the development of personality disorder.
(9) Specific issues of changing emphasis in drive theory, ego organization, developmental levels of anxiety, and the separation-individuation process are considered.
(10) The ego psychology of conflict may be practical at the conscious level.
(11) The aim of this paper is to elucidate the process of identity formation with particular emphasis on how the 'work ego' of each analyst is formed through various experiences which help the practitioner wed theoretical knowledge with clinical experience.
(12) This white child had as his alter-ego, really as part of his self-representation, a black half of the self, personified as a black boy whom he fantasized to be his twin.
(13) Experimentals and controls did not differ on demographics, ego level, verbal ability, affect, or perceived social support.
(14) The DRS and LCFS were compared in terms of how consistently ratings could be made by different raters, how stable those ratings were from day to day, their relative correlation with Stover Zeiger (S-Z) ratings collected concurrently at admission, and with S-Z, Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS), and Expanded GOS (EGOS) ratings collected concurrently at discharge, and finally in the ability of admission DRS and LCFS scores to predict discharge ratings on the S-Z, GOS, and EGOS.
(15) "There's this moment when they're all around me singing 'I love you' at me and I was sitting there in rehearsal thinking, 'I hope this doesn't come across as some giant ego trip.'"
(16) By participation we mean one's identification of his ego with a person(s), an object, or a symbolic construct outside himself, and his striving to lose his separate identity by fusion with this other object or symbol.
(17) Erik Erikson used the film character of Dr. Borg from Wild Strawberries to flesh out his life cycle conception of ego integrity versus despair in old age.
(18) The preceding paper, by Louis Tinnin, challenges us to consider that there is a brain agency responsible for mental unity, volition and consciousness, which the author labels a "governing mental system" (GMS), or "ego," and that the neural substrate for this GMS is Wernicke's Area.
(19) There are absolutely no egos and the Premier League boys are so welcoming and have made it easy to fit in both with the style of play and behind the scenes with the lads.
(20) A link between personality and substance use is established by assuming that (a) substance use which occurs in response to problem situations represents a present-oriented, emotion-focused coping behavior, and (b) adolescents who lack ego strength and ego control are more likely to rely on emotion-focused coping behaviors.
Ich
Definition:
(pron.) I.
Example Sentences:
(1) The possibility of ICH should always be considered and excluded by CT or US in the infants with nonspecific clinical manifestations.
(2) To complement these results a perception test was carried out in which 29 native speakers identified a randomised sequence of 220 stimuli from tape as one of the phrases 'Diese Gruppe kann ich nicht leid(e)n (leit(e)n)'.
(3) Contrast enhancement was demonstrated on day 3 in four of the five patients in whom the ICH was removed later than 10 days after the hemorrhage.
(4) But the ICH group showed a higher incidence of placental abruption, infarction, infection and incompetent cervix than the non-ICH group.
(5) Minor hemorrhage (not requiring transfusion) outside the central nervous system occurred in five of the nine patients with ICH.
(6) Nevertheless, invasive diagnostic procedures-in particular, open-lung biopsy-are often necessary to diagnose pulmonary disease in the ICH.
(7) The localization of An-ICH was 50% in the middle cerebral artery (MC), 43% in the anterior cerebral artery (AC) and 8% in the internal carotid arterial region.
(8) Stupor or coma at onset occurred more frequently in the IVH (62%) than in the INF (6%) or ICH (13%) groups and was reflected in significantly lower median Glasgow Coma Scores in the IVH group (7) than in the INF (15) and ICH (14) groups.
(9) Likewise, sera from these two groups of dogs had similar ranges of ICH neutralising antibody titres.
(10) Forty percent of An-ICH were treated conservatively and the outcome was very misery (no useful life and 94% was poor or dead).
(11) Stroke-related deaths occurred in 52% of IVH cases, 13% of ICH cases, and no cases of INF.
(12) Although the distribution of individual grades of ICH was not significantly different between the groups, the first ultrasound scan showed higher incidence of major ICH (grades 3 and 4) in the hypothermic infants.
(13) Among secondary alterations in hemostasis, thrombocytopenia, platelet function abnormalities, or factor consumption contribute to the risk of ICH in patients with ITP, TTP, disseminated intravascular coagulation, myeloproliferative or myelodysplastic disorders, and exposure to certain medications.
(14) The type of delivery is not likely to play a role by itself in mortality or in incidence of severe ICH.
(15) A larger number of pathologic findings of all mentioned enzymes and CPK isoenzymes was found in the group of patients with ICH.
(16) A routine skull x-ray study is therefore mandatory in all head-injured adolescents and, if a skull fracture is detected, immediate CT may be performed for early detection of ICH.
(17) Arteriography evidenced normal intracranial vessels, and namely excluded the presence of vascular malformations which could have been implicated in the pathogenesis of ICH.
(18) It is prudent, therefore, to follow SGA infants closely for ICH by repeat ultrasound examinations even if the first scan is negative.
(19) 5 groups were distinguished on the basis of CT data: 103 patients with isolated deep ICH had normal angiograms; 9 patients with isolated superficial ICH and 8 with deep ICH and intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) had arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).
(20) Hypertension is the major risk factor for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and is present in about 50% of patients with ICH.