The psychology of self is the study of either the cognitive, conative or affective representation of one's identity, or the subject of experience.

Essential to understanding self psychology are the concepts of empathy, selfobject, mirroring, idealising, alter ego/twinship and the tripolar self. Though self ...

Major concepts · Empathy · Selfobjects · The tripolar self

In philosophy, the self is an individual's own being, knowledge, and values, and the relationship between these attributes. The first-person perspective ...

The psychology of self and identity is a subfield of Psychology that moves psychological research “deeper inside the conscious mind of the person and ...

In the psychology of self, one's self-concept is a collection of beliefs about oneself. Generally, self-concept embodies the answer to the question "Who am ...

Self-esteem is confidence in one's own worth, abilities, or morals. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs about oneself as well as emotional states, ...

The Psychology of Self... · Self-esteem instability · Rosenberg self-esteem scale

The true self and the false self are a psychological dualism conceptualized by English psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. Winnicott used "true self" to denote ...

Psychology is the study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, ...

Portal · History · Subfields · Personality psychology

In the ego psychology model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual desires; the superego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ...

Psychoanalytic theory · Beyond the Pleasure Principle · Psychic apparatus · Instinct