Ego-structuring psychotherapy

Area of Science:

• Psychology
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychiatry

Background:

• Psychoanalysis defines psychosis as an early personality/ego development disturbance.
• This occurs before the Oedipal phase, linked to the foreclosure of a key factor in primal repression.
• Freud identified this factor as crucial for repression, while Lacan termed it the
• Name of the Father

Purpose of the Study:

• To explore the psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis, focusing on ego development.
• To examine Lacan's theory of the
• Name of the Father
• foreclosure in psychosis.
• To present ego-structuring psychotherapy as a therapeutic intervention.

Main Methods:

• Theoretical analysis of psychoanalytic concepts (Freud, Lacan).
• Examination of the role of the
• Name of the Father
• in personality structuring and language.
• Description of ego-structuring psychotherapy's mechanism.

Main Results:

• Foreclosure of the
• Name of the Father
• hinders the unconscious from structuring the ego and the imaginary.
• This foreclosure prevents linguistic structuring and the development of a worldview.
• Ego-structuring psychotherapy facilitates the integration of the
• Name of the Father
• , enabling linguistic development.

Conclusions:

• Psychosis involves a fundamental disturbance in ego development due to the foreclosure of the
• Name of the Father
• .
• Therapeutic intervention can facilitate linguistic structuring and the development of a coherent worldview.
• This enables individuals with psychosis to become historically determined subjects with a life plan.