Beyond Empathy: The Tree of Compassion With Malevolent Ego States

Abstract

Therapy with seriously dissociated patients requires the transformation and integration of malevolent ego states that produce a wide assortment of negative experiences and behaviors in the patient. During the course of therapy, they can present dangers to both patient and therapist, as well as to the therapeutic process (Watkins & Watkins, 1984). Perhaps the greatest challenges for therapists in this work are the development and the maintenance of empathy for these personality aspects. Without some degree of empathy, a healing therapeutic alliance cannot be formed, and absent a secure, healing, intersubjective experience, it is unlikely that malevolent ego states can undergo sufficient transformation for integration. Essential elements for developing and sustaining both the necessary empathy and the compassion, the altruistic activity that empathy engenders, are presented.

The Effectiveness of Ego State Therapy in the Reduction of Athletes’ Stress Levels

“…37 Ego state therapy is a psychodynamic approach where a group and family are utilized to resolve conflicts between various intrinsic states of an individual. 20,26 This is a relatively quick technique, based on the premise that an individual's personality is consisted of separate parts. 27,38 Furthermore, individual, family, and group therapy approaches are used to access and deal with the ego state of athletes.…”

“…33 This provides easy ways to access the ego state that needs resolution. 20,22 Resistance Bridge is a hypnosis technique for the promotion of movement, especially after performing deepening resistance on the surface to address the main problem. This approach is used to better ascertain the principal challenge 19,34 through the application of memory psychology, where each datum or experience with a certain emotional charge is resurfaced by washing the emotion.…”

“…Ego state therapy is short, extraordinary, and focuses on the premise of the personality being comprised of separate parts. 16,20 It is also considered to be a psychodynamic approach with groups and family therapy utilized to resolve conflicts between the various "ego states" within a single individual. 5,21 Ego state therapy uses individual, family, and group therapy approaches to access and deal with this state to release and overcome the occurrence of conflicts.…”

Influencer Pazarlamanın Tüketicilerin Satınalma Davranışları Üzerindeki Etkileri: Bursa İli Örneği

“…Araştırmacı, geliştirmiş olduğu empati ölçeğinin geçerlik ve güvenirliğini kanıtladıktan sonra, empati ölçeğine ait skorlar ile sosyal hayatta uygun görülen davranışların gerçek hayat endeksleri arasındaki ilişkiyi ortaya koymuştur. Empati bilişsel ve duygusal empati olarak iki açıdan değerlendirilmektedir (Frederick, 2016). Jolliffe & Farrington (2006) geliştirmiş oldukları Temel Empati Ölçeğinin örneklem kitlesine uygulanması sonrasında, sempati, bakış açısı edinme, tepkisizlik, yumuşak başlılık, dürüstlük, açıklık, ebeveyn gözetimi ve sosyoekonomik durum ölçümleriyle gözlemledikleri ilişkilerden elde ettikleri sonuçlara bakıldığında, Temel Empati Ölçeğinin yakınsak geçerliliğe sahip olduğunu gözlemlenmiştir.…”

States of Consciousness and Ego States

“…In his writing, Assagioli is not speaking about the rare cases of dissociative personality disorders but rather the day-to-day or minute-to-minute shifting of consciousness that Berne would call changing ego states. In some situations, these may be seen as mental programs of a defensive or survival nature as if the group of experiences are sub-personalities, and complex processes with various protective (even if maladaptive) motives (Frederick, 1996(Frederick, , 2005(Frederick, , 2016Frederick and McNeal, 1999;Lowen, 1967;Watkins, 1978;Watkins and Watkins, 1979, 1984, 1988, 1997. To emphasise her position, for instance, Frederick states "Malevolent ego states (also known variously as destructive, perpetrator, demonic, and protector ego states or alters) are aspects of the personality that preside over a number of self-destructive behaviors such as suicide and homicide attempts, disturbances of mood and of cognition, somatic and somatoform illnesses, and disabling flashbacks" (p.332).…”