Posted by Dinah on January 7, 2010, at 9:06:04
In reply to egocentric stage, posted by blahblahblah on January 6, 2010, at 6:11:18
Is it perhaps some technical term that doesn't mean precisely what it means in everyday life?
I found this when I googled "egocentric" and "stage of development".
Egocentrism is the inability to take on another's point of view; children can not conceive that anyone thinks differently from themselves...
http://www.effective-spiritual-parenting.com/stages-of-development.html
******They are also examples of egocentric thinking--not that the young child is selfish. It's just that he cannot take anyone else's perspective, so that everything in the world revolves around him. When he's sad, he cries. So, it must be that the sky does, too.
(An egocentric child, on seeing his father upset, hands him his favorite teddy bear. This act shows that the child is not selfish. He is offering the thing that he finds most comforting. He cannot imagine that his father would not have the same feelings.)
http://www.drspock.com/article/0,1510,3901,00.html
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Piaget and Inhelder2 made the interesting, anomalous, and readily replicable finding that when presented with what is, by adult standards, a moderately complex task, children until the age of about seven years will persistently indicate their own point of view when asked for the point of view of another. From this and related phenomena they have argued that young children go through a developmental stage during which they have difficulty understanding points of view different from their own because these points of view are not their own. Because of the elegant and perplexing nature of Piaget and Inhelder's finding, experimenters have emphasized situations in which the child does not give the point of view of the other but instead projects his own point of view onto the other.
http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=PSAR.062.0305A
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I'm not entirely sure what this means in the context of what you were saying. I'm not good at that sort of thing. It might be best to ask your therapist, since she might have meant something else entirely.
Though I'm still not sure what my therapist meant by "poor ego strength". The more I ask, the more vague he got. I eventually started using it myself, even though I'm still not sure what it means.
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