ABSTRACT
The techniques of psychotherapy encourage such a relaxation of the structures' present interconnections. But the therapist has to be cautious. Structures that are connected influence each other continually in a never-ending dynamic process. Faulty structures can sometimes be corrected, in everyday life and/or in psychotherapy, if attention can be paid to them in a here-and-now context, and if there is enough stability in the less faulty parts of a person's psychic organization. The more of the self is involved in a structure, the more people can call it an ego-structure. The ego-structures contain, control, integrate, and differentiate. Just as the integrating context of past experiences provides a kind of control, so does the opposite process. In general, when the connections between structures relax, structures may come adrift. Then, some structures may be what they were years ago, before further experiences modified them—regression.
