ego-syntonic

This variety involves paranoid traits ... and ego-syntonic aggression ...

Judith M. Bardwick: That Something Is Published Does Not Make It True 2009

It has become ego-syntonic, or culturally syntonic, to be obsessed with healthy eating!

Donna Fish: Healthy Eating Obsession Gets Red Alert on the Today Show 2008

It has become ego-syntonic, or culturally syntonic, to be obsessed with healthy eating!

Donna Fish: HEALTHY EATING OBSESSION Gets Red Alert on the Tod 2008

They are ego-syntonic, acceptable to the normally-functioning mind.

Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 3 2008

And this image is not "ego-syntonic," as is said in the field.

Anne Coulter Glimpses the Beast 2006

It is important to understand that the use of violence must be ego-syntonic.

It’s not offensive because I say it’s not 2005

Jackel 1963 stated that an initial treatment aim is to make ego-syntonic traits and behaviors ego-alien, or ego-dystonic, in the context of building a relationship.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

The recent DSM-III distinguishes between patients who present ego-dystonic or ego-syntonic affects about their homosexuality, with only those in the former group viewed as exhibiting any form of psychopathology.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

When their self-injurious or maladaptive behaviors are ego-syntonic, rather than ego-dystonic, they do not experience anguish or anxiety.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

One only hopes that the adolescent has been helped to return to a progressive line of development, following the achievement of making conflictual and complex themes ego-syntonic in nature.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986