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Originally Posted by Confusedinomicon
Isn't the existence of the ego a bit outdated? Freud was not the most ethical scientist and there has not been any proof of the id/ego and super ego.
I agree with you on the stress bit, genetic. I think bipolar patients are sensitive to change and stress...mores then the average person.
Moods can be tracked over a long period of time to see if there is any pattern to them.  |
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Maybe not, Confusedinomicon, but psychiatrists do use the theory in their
work; at least the ones I've had do--that is, a theory of the ego, id and superego. All religions suggest that the ego needs to go in terms of well-being, and it has been written about by some of the best theologians--
Emanuel Kant, for one, in his works. I think many other Phds have written about it, too. I remember reading the statement that what happens in religious conversion is the "burning of the ego to the degree that one becomes aware of an over-riding Spritiual Guide". I can't discount the
almost unlimited work on the subject that suggests ideas about the ego,
particularly as a problem in the need for psychiatric help.