SWK 6521, Spring 2021, Podcast-Lecture 003

This is podcast-lecture 2 of 2 for this week, and it talks about the structural model (id, ego, super-ego).
Intro:
This is podcast-lecture 2 of 2 for this week, and it talks about the structural model (id, ego, super-ego).

Content:
Is "ego" a bad word? 
Ego & Identity (the story we tell ourself about ourself) 
Ego as air-traffic-control 
Ego as a symptom (a way of believing we are in control of "the real" when we are not really in control) 
Defense (against the real) 
Neil Gorman (DSW, LCSW)