I-syntony

I-syntony generally means that a person experiences their thoughts, impulses or emotions as belonging to their ego . So these are not perceived as strange and disturbing, but as an integral part of one's own personality . Therefore, they do not emanate any psychological stress .

I-syntony thus also describes a feeling of not perceiving one's own behavior as deviating or norm-violating - even if it is seen by other people as a deviation . The opposite of ego syntony is ego dystonia .

Word formation

The term ego syntony is a combination of two separate words, whereby the word syntony is derived as a noun from the adjective synton . The adjective synton means that a person is in emotional harmony with the environment.

description

In psychopathology , ego syntony is a symptom of various mental disorders . Experience and behavior that can be ascribed to a disorder is not perceived as disturbing or pathological from one's own perspective. The person concerned perceives his own acting, thinking and feeling as belonging to himself (in the sense of a part of his own self ). Those affected therefore identify with their symptoms and cannot distance themselves from them.

For the delusion , the incomparable subjective certainty and thus the ego syntony of one's own ideas is a necessary symptom for the diagnosis . Even during manic episodes there is mostly ego syntony. People with a personality disorder also experience their symptoms as the I-synton particularly often .

Apart from the examples mentioned, ego syntony is rare in the area of ​​mental disorders. In obsessive- compulsive disorder , for example, compulsive actions and obsessive- compulsive thoughts are usually experienced as nonsensical and superfluous, i.e. ego-dystonic . In the case of depression , the emotional experience usually leads to a considerable level of suffering, so the fact of being depressed is also perceived as an ego-dystonic.

literature

• Christian Scharfetter: General Psychopathology . Thieme, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-13-531505-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Reuter: Springer Lexicon Medicine. Springer, Berlin a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-540-20412-1 (Lemma synton).
2. ↑ Franz Engels: Obsessive-Compulsive Disease. Retrieved August 30, 2019 . 

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