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<p>In <i>Ego Psychology II</i>, Gertrude and Rubin Blanck elaborate upon ego psychological theory, extending and broadening it into a psychoanalytic developmental psychology. They present the unifying proposal, derived from Freud's concept of an overall ego (the <i>Gesamt Ich</i>), that the ego is the organizing process itself. Out of this basic proposition, a holistic conception of psychological development evolves.</p> <p>Within the developmental framework established in <i>Ego Psychology II</i> symptom constellation is shown to be unreliable as a guide to diagnosis. A diagram of development is presented to convey that overall development rather than symptomatology provides guidelines for secure diagnosis and suggests how treatment is to be carried out. Treatment, in the form of ego-building techniques, evolves from recognition that developmental inadequacies cause pathological formations that become malformations in the structure.</p> <p><i>Ego Psychology II</i> is valuable for psychotherapists, psychologists, psychoanalysts and social workers: the authors' extensive case-study material illustrates the theroy and technique of developmental psychology in vivid form. The authors s

Author

Blanck, Gertrude; Blanck, Rubin, joint author

Publisher

New York: Columbia University Press

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231044707

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Medicine