Ich-Umwelt-Grenze

English translation: ego-environment boundary

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German term or phrase:Ich-Umwelt-Grenze
English translation:ego-environment boundary
Entered by: Stephen R Schoening

22:25 May 16, 2010
German to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Psychology / Neurology, Psychology, Psychiatry
German term or phrase: Ich-Umwelt-Grenze
In a German medical report, in neurological section, this phrase occurs in this context: "...es ergaben sich auch keine Hinweise für Wahn-, Sinnestäuschungen oder Störungen der Ich-Umwelt-Grenze."
I translated as "no evidence for delusions, hallucinations ..." but cannot find good English trans. for the Ich-Umwelt-Grenze. This is the main term I am looking for, but if anyone disagrees with my translation of the other 2 terms I am open to advice.

Thanks!
Stephen R Schoening
United States
Local time: 01:44
ego-enviroment boundary
Explanation:
"disturbance of the ego-environment boundary"

e.g.:
Projection is taken here close to its usual meaning in psychotherapy, as a setting of the ego-environment boundary which puts a part of me into the environment, so to speak. In therapy, projections are commonly seen as disowned elements which must eventually be recognized and acknowledged for health's sake; insofar as they interfere with my process, they may be considered pathological.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jzeman/gestaltw.htm

The ego/environment boundary is interrupted by parental "shoulds" and "oughts".
http://books.google.com/books?id=55yRYnEymVYC&pg=PA157&lpg=P...

The boundary layer of ego separates the object from the rest of the environment.
http://books.google.com/books?id=I5yc7XQSd04C&pg=PA82&lpg=PA...

Inner boundaries are shaped by genetic inheritance (individual neurochemistry, the sensitivity of the amygdala, and the connections between various parts of the brain, among other things); our psychic adaptation very early in life to the loss of that common skin French psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu calls the moi-peau, or ego-skin, between mother and baby; and the effect of early environment on psychological as well as physical development.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ajST-HL...

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Marga Shaw
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:44
Grading comment
Thanks, Marga! I used your suggestion. Appreciate the many references also.

Stephen
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2ego-enviroment boundary
Marga Shaw
3 +1self-other boundary
Zareh Darakjian Ph.D.
3 +1boundary between the self and the environment
casper (X)
3self boundary
RegineMac
3self vis-à-vis environment
Rolf Keiser


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45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
self boundary


Explanation:
or:
Boundary between self and others

If I understand the German word correctly.


    Reference: http://www-usr.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/disinhibit.html
RegineMac
United States
Local time: 23:44
Native speaker of: German
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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
self-other boundary


Explanation:
I have seen this term used within the context of college courses in education.

http://in2uract.wordpress.com/2007/09/23/self-other-boundari...

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http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a741...

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http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2007/12/synchronized-mo...

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http://books.google.com/books?id=kfmXSIJPvqEC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA...

Zareh Darakjian Ph.D.
United States
Local time: 23:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ArmenianArmenian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maureen Millington-Brodie
9 hrs
  -> Thank you, mbrodie.
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
boundary between the self and the environment


Explanation:
or: self/environment boundary


The object relations therefore develop within the overall context of the environment relations, both employing the same mechanisms which have been used to manage the boundary between the self and the environment. These mechanisms now manage the relationship between that part of the self which relates to the part of the environment or object experienced.
www.meridian.org.uk/_PDFs/Anxiety DefencesI.pdf



'Self' is not the same as 'organism', nor 'other' the same as 'environment', in this theory. The physical organism/environment boundary is the first reality, a base complex enough to allow the new level of organisation of life, selfhood, and consciousness to emerge.
http://www.123webpages.co.uk/user/index.php?user=mgc&pn=1071...



Central goal of Gestalt Therapy: Increase awareness of self, environment and the self-environment boundary.
http://www.flashcardmachine.com/eppp.html

casper (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nicole Y. Adams, M.A.
1 day 20 hrs
  -> Thank you, Nicole Y. Adams
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
self vis-à-vis environment


Explanation:
cognition of one's self in a given environment

Rolf Keiser
Switzerland
Local time: 08:44
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 8
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
ego-enviroment boundary


Explanation:
"disturbance of the ego-environment boundary"

e.g.:
Projection is taken here close to its usual meaning in psychotherapy, as a setting of the ego-environment boundary which puts a part of me into the environment, so to speak. In therapy, projections are commonly seen as disowned elements which must eventually be recognized and acknowledged for health's sake; insofar as they interfere with my process, they may be considered pathological.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jzeman/gestaltw.htm

The ego/environment boundary is interrupted by parental "shoulds" and "oughts".
http://books.google.com/books?id=55yRYnEymVYC&pg=PA157&lpg=P...

The boundary layer of ego separates the object from the rest of the environment.
http://books.google.com/books?id=I5yc7XQSd04C&pg=PA82&lpg=PA...

Inner boundaries are shaped by genetic inheritance (individual neurochemistry, the sensitivity of the amygdala, and the connections between various parts of the brain, among other things); our psychic adaptation very early in life to the loss of that common skin French psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu calls the moi-peau, or ego-skin, between mother and baby; and the effect of early environment on psychological as well as physical development.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ajST-HL...



Marga Shaw
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:44
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks, Marga! I used your suggestion. Appreciate the many references also.

Stephen

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Helen Shiner
1 hr
  -> Thank you Helen!

agree  Susan Welsh
5 hrs
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