"Ego" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of internalized parental and social prohibitions or the conscience, (the superego), and of reality.
| Descriptor ID |
D004532
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.752.747.189 F02.739.794.206
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The dynamic formulation and modern psychiatry. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1990 Sep; 29(5):835-6.