Ego disorder
As I disorders experience patterns are called, which are environmental-border I in terms of disruption of personal unity experience ( "interference of the I-experience comes"). The term ego disorder encompasses a complex of symptoms, some of which differ from one another phenotypically .
On the one hand, there may be a pure disruption of the ego-environmental boundary, such as B. in depersonalization , where the respective person feels alienated from himself, or a lack of ability to perceive oneself as separated from the environment.
On the other hand, phenomena can occur in which one's own experience content and actions, especially at the level of thinking, are perceived as manipulated from outside, which is also referred to as external influence.
The former often does not lead to changes in behavior from a psychodynamic point of view, but is mostly perceived by those affected as extremely unpleasant.
In the case of a disturbed perception of the ego in the sense of an experience of being influenced by someone else, the additional criterion of delusional symptoms is often given, or the transition is flowing, which may lead the person affected to disturbed behavior.
A common characteristic is the reduced delimitation of one's own identity from the environment.
Systematization
Ego disorders form a symptom group of the psychopathological finding and can be divided into those with external influences (e.g. on the level of thinking or body motor skills) and those that only affect perception:
| With the experience of outside influence | Purely on the emotional level | |
Occurrence
Ego disorders are symptoms that can occur in psychotic diseases such as schizophrenia , organic brain syndromes, as epileptic aura , as well as due to psychotropic substances, but also, for example, in the case of fatigue (here, however, mostly without experiencing external influences, which is more typical for psychotic diseases, especially schizophrenia ). They are to be distinguished from various forms of madness and thought disorders , disorientation and hallucinations .
Individual evidence
- ↑ AMDP: The AMDP system. Manual for the documentation of psychiatric findings (8th, revised edition). Hogrefe, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3801719258
