Significant symptoms and suffering due to intrapsychic conflict centered upon competing wishes and urges |
Motivation to understand the unconscious patterns in one's life that lead to self-defeating behavior and hurting others that one doesn't wish to hurt |
Ability to anticipate the consequences of one's actions (judgment) |
Intact reality testing (ability to assess reality) that is not impaired by faulty judgment or grossly disturbed by psychosis |
Good impulse control |
Meaningful object relations, which is the ability to relate to significant others in a meaningful and consistent way, form intimate relationships, tolerate separation and loss, and maintain autonomy and independence |
Ability to sustain activity such as work or school despite setbacks |
Ability to regress in the service of the ego, which involves using the irrational processes of the unconscious to develop alternative ways of thinking and feeling, and also involves activities that help one to recover from the stress of life, in order to continue to function well |
Ability to tolerate frustration and intense affects associated with exploring unpleasant aspects of the self |
Mentalizing capacity, which is the ability to see that internal, mental states explain behavior; and the ability to sense the mental state of another person and respond accordingly |
Capacity for insight (psychological mindedness) |
Capacity to understand analogies and metaphors |
Reflective responses to the clinician's initial interpretations of transference and resistance |
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