Integration and sealing-over as recovery styles from acute psychosis.
Integration and sealing-over are terms frequently used to describe different types of recovery from acute psychosis. Metapsychological and dynamic propositions regarding integration and sealing-over as recovery styles are presented and illustrated with clinical case material. Particular emphasis is placed on the different modes of conflict resolution characteristic of integration and sealing-over. The ego operations underlying these modes of conflict resolution are discussed.
D000208:Acute Disease; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy