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What represents strength?In: Mental Health |
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Bellack, a renowned scientist, described a 12 item list of Ego Functions that maybe used to identify strength/weakness. The term "Ego" refers to the adult construct that is required to be mature to deal with the world. Some for the 12 items of ego functions include
1- Reality testing
2- Synthesis and Integration
3- ARISE: which stands for adaptive regression in service of the ego: e.g of such acitivity is the abitliy to play, sleep, make love, ...etc with true enjoyment and with a refreshing effect
4- Self control and regulation
5- Stimulus barrier: that is related to the ability to focus inspite of distractions
There are another seven that can be dug out from any library. The reference is
Bellack: Ego functions in Schizophrenia, normals and neurotics.
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