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Ego state therapy identifies and names facets of a patient’s personality, e.g., the “frightened child” or “control freak”. After the characteristics and function of each ego state are identified, the therapist uses various psychotherapeutictechniques (e.g. behavioral, cognitive, analytic, or humanistic therapies) to achieve a kind of internal diplomacy.

Ego state therapy may use hypnosis, but is not necessarily required to do so. Ego state therapy has sometimes been able to resolve complex psychodynamic problems relatively quickly.

The concept of segmentation of personality has been around for many years. The creation of ego-state therapy is attributed to John G. Watkins.