Fries, M.E. (1946). The Child's Ego Development and the Training of Adults in his Environme... Psychoanal. St. Child, 2:85-112.

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(1946). Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 2:85-112

The Child's Ego Development and the Training of Adults in his Environment


Margaret E. Fries, M.D. Author Information

Planned education of the ego is concerned with the impact of life experience upon the individual as he progresses from birth to maturity. Freud frequently stressed the need for broadening and strengthening the ego (13), (14), (15), (16), and in therapeutic psychoanalysis our attention is focused upon problems of the ego and the need for its development. Balint (2) suggests the need for a sound theory and method of education based on a more precise study of the processes involved in strengthening the ego, while French (9), (10) emphasizes the "learning" and "working through" processes during analysis.

Whether the ego will be strong or weak is determined by the type of life experiences it encounters. Obviously, frequent integrating experiences will help the child to build a strong ego and, conversely, repeated indiscriminate exposure to traumatic experiences will hinder ego development (11).

The problem is how to set the stage during infancy and childhood so that the child can

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