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| An emotional connection to someone else. |
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| The need to be effective or successful in dealing with environment. |
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| The need to have impact on the environment. |
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| The extent to which a person controls or inhibits impulses. |
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| The overall sense of self that emerges from your transactions with social reality. |
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| Ego Quality (Ego Strength or Virtue) |
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| The quality that becomes part of your personality through successful management of a crisis. |
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| The ability to flexibly modify your typical level of ego control to adapt to new contexts. |
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| The idea (adopted from embryology) that an internal plan for future development is present at the beginning of life. |
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| The feeling that you are deficient in some way. |
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| The idea that developmental processes continue throughout life. |
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| The giving of positive attention and supportiveness to someone. |
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| A sense of grandiose self-importance and entitlement. |
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| A story you compose for yourself about life to create a coherent sense of identity. |
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| An individual's symbolized relations to other persons (such as parents). |
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| The use of play as a procedure for conducting therapy with children. |
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| Psychosocial Crisis (or Conflict) |
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| A turning point in a developmental period when some interpersonal issue is being dealt with and growth potential and vulnerability are both high. |
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| Kohut's theory that relationships create the structure of the self. |
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| The mental representation of another person who functions to satisfy your needs. |
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| The process of acquiring a distinct identity; separating from fusion with the mother. |
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| A procedure used to assess the attachment pattern of the infant to the mother. |
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| A period in which an infant experiences fusion with the mother. |
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| The viewing of other people through selfobject representations originally developed for parents. |
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