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Ego psychology is a school of psychoanalysis rooted in Sigmund Freud's structural id-ego-superego model of the mind. ... By the 1970s, several challenges to the ...
Ego-psychology became in fact the dominant psychoanalytic force in the States for the next half-century or so, before object relations theory began to come to the fore. [8] It formed the basis and starting-point for the self psychology of Heinz Kohut , for example, which both opposed and was rooted in Hartmann's theory of libido .
Edoardo Weiss (1889-1970) was the earliest Italian psychoanalyst, and the founder of psychoanalysis in Italy.His most important theoretical contributions were perhaps to the development of ego state theory.
Archetypal psychology was initiated as a distinct movement in the early 1970s by James ... In this framework the ego is but one psychological fantasy within an ...
Erikson is credited with being one of the originators of ego psychology, which emphasized the role of the ego as being more than a servant of the id. Although Erikson accepted Freud's theory, he did not focus on the parent-child relationship and gave more importance to the role of the ego, particularly the person's progression as self. [ 34 ]
1970 – "Critical psychology" became a psychological theoretical field. Klaus Holzkamp, who worked as a professor at the Free University of Berlin, took a central role in defining critical psychology based on the works of Karl Marx and Aleksei N. Leontiev. 1970 – Masters and Johnson published Human Sexual Inadequacy.
The eight-circuit idea was not exhaustively formulated until the publication of Exo-Psychology by Leary and Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger in 1977. Wilson contributed to the model after befriending Leary in the early 1970s, and used it as a framework for further exposition in his book Prometheus Rising, among other works. [D]
In 1953, Klein joined the New York University Department of Psychology's newly founded Research Center for Mental Health (RCMH) as co-director with Robert R. Holt. [5] Funded by foundation grants, Air-Force contracts and a Center grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, it functioned as an integral part of NYU's clinical psychology ...