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Acting out and acting up: the superego lacuna revisited
1University of Virginia Medical Center.
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|July 1, 1987
Abstract:
The diagnostic and psychotherapeutic importance of distinguishing between acting out of unconscious conflict and acting up, or direct expression of impulse, are highlighted. Some applications of the control defect concept to social problems and psychiatric conditions are discussed.