Identification (Psychology)
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Temporal order processing of syllables in the left parietal lobe.

5 Oct 2009 Speech processing requires the temporal parsing of syllable order. Individuals suffering from posterior left hemisphere brain injury often exhibit temporal processing deficits as well as language deficits. Although the right posterior inferior ... Read more...

[Loss of identity in Alzheimer's disease: a psychoanalytic approach]

30 Aug 2009 Loss of identity in Alzheimer's disease concerns successively mind and body. The disturbance of the body image is emphasized from the first stage of the disease to that of physical dependency. Identity disorder is also implicated in the caring ... Read more...

The War Memoirs: some origins of the thought of W. R. Bion.

30 Jul 2009 The work of W. R. Bion changed the shape of psychoanalytic theory in fundamental ways, one of the most important of which was Bion's insight into the nature of normal projective identification. No other psychoanalytic theorist has Bion's ability to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Identification (Psychology)'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Temporal order processing of syllables in the left parietal lobe. 5 Oct 2009
• [Loss of identity in Alzheimer's disease: a psychoanalytic approach] 30 Aug 2009
• The War Memoirs: some origins of the thought of W. R. Bion. 30 Jul 2009
• Murdered father; dead father: revisiting the Oedipus complex. 30 Jul 2009
• On love, hate and knowledge. 30 Jul 2009
• Personal identity, enhancement and neurosurgery: a qualitative study in applied neuroethics. 29 Jun 2009
• Freud's Rat Man from the perspective of an early-life variant of the Oedipus complex. 29 Jun 2009
• Measuring the impact of a moving target: towards a dynamic framework for evaluating collaborative adaptive interactive technologies. 16 Jun 2009
• Mirror neurons and mind: commentary on vivona. 30 May 2009
• Direct and indirect effects of birth order on personality and identity: support for the null hypothesis. 30 May 2009
• Identity fusion: the interplay of personal and social identities in extreme group behavior. 29 Apr 2009
• Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations. 29 Apr 2009
• The technique of partial identification: waking up to the world. 30 Mar 2009
• The embodied mind. 30 Mar 2009
• Defense mechanisms associated with borderline personality disorder. 30 Mar 2009
• Identity style in patients with borderline personality disorder and normal controls. 30 Mar 2009
• Selecting and perceiving multiple visual objects. 7 Mar 2009
• Identity transformation in medical students. 27 Feb 2009
• The Palestinian/Israeli Conflict: a geopolitical identity disorder. 27 Feb 2009
• Who are we? Where did we come from? How religious identity divides and damns us all. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Identification (Psychology)'

Definition: A process by which an individual unconsciously endeavors to pattern himself after another. This process is also important in the development of the personality, particularly the superego or conscience, which is modeled largely on the behavior of adult significant others.

Descriptor UI: D007062

Alternative terms: Identification (Psychology); Identifications (Psychology); Identification;

Tree Number: F01.393.446; F01.752.747.385;

Online Note: search DEFENSE MECHANISMS 1966-67

History Note: 68; was IDENTIFICATION see under DEFENSE MECHANISMS 1963-67

Technical Notes: no qualif; DF: IDENTIFICATION