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Section 3. Theory

Mind Structure and Ego States

Pages 278-289
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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In this article ego states are seen to have their place in the current exciting convergence of views on the way the mind structures itself through the repetitive processing of incoming perceptions. As the receptors in the mind assimilate the similar and filter out the dissimilar, generalized representations of experience are built up and stored. It appears that this fundamental neural process builds up coherent networks of representations that function as wholes, interlinking with each other in increasing mental complexity. Ego states appear to be an evolved example of this impressively powerful process of structuration.

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Jenni Hine

Jenni Hine is an occupational therapist and Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (clinical). She practices in Switzerland as co-director of training for the Center for Transactional Analysis—Geneva and has had a continuing interest in mind structure since first doing reeducation work with brain damaged patients as an occupational therapist and subsequently while seeking to understand scripting processes in clinical practice as a transactional analyst.
 

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