Defense mechanisms theoretical, research and clinical perspectives

Summary: The book is focused on defense mechanisms as theoretical constructs as well as the possibilities of their empirical registration by different methods, and the application of these constructs in different fields of psychology with special regard to concurrent and predictive validity. It is argued that defense mechanisms are in many ways to be seen as integrative constructs, not necessarily restricted to psychoanalytic theory and that the potential fields of their application have a wide ranging scope, comprising many fields of psychology. Consequently empirical studies are presented from the fields of clinical and personality psychology, psychotherapy research and psychosomatic phenomena and diseases. Methodological questions have a heavy weight in most of these studies. * Provides coverage of relevant literature * Covers different fields of application * Attempts an integration of the construct of defense mechanisms into mainstream psychology * Provides explanations of the theoretical basis of the construct of defense mechanisms.

Record details

ISBN: 9780080477077 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0080477070 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0444512632
ISBN: 9780444512635
ISBN: 9781423769774 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1423769775 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 646 p.) : ill.
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Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:january.19
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I. General Issues -- Defense Mechanisms : Current Approaches to Research and Measurement / Uwe Hentschel ... [et al.] -- A Critical Perspective On Defense Mechanisms / Paul Kline -- Defense Mechanisms In The Clinic, The Laboratory, And The Social World : Toward Closing The Gaps / Juris G. Draguns -- What Is A Mechanism Of Defense? / Hans Sjöbäck -- Percept-Genesis and the Study of Defensive Processes / Bert Westerlundh -- Part 2. Percept-Genetic, Projective and Rating Techniques for the Assessment of Defense Mechanisms -- Defense Mechanisms and Cognitive Styles in Projective Techniques and Other Diagnostic Instruments / Falk Leichsenring -- Percept-Genetic Identification of Defense / Gudmund Smith and Uwe Hentschel -- Contributions to the Construct Validity of the Defense Mechanism Test / Barbara E. Saitner -- Studying Defense Mechanisms in Psychotherapy Using the Defense Mechanism Rating Scales / J. Christopher Perry and Melissa Henry -- The Motivational and Cognitive Determinants of Defense Mechanisms / Shulamith Kreitler and Hans Kreitle -- Repressive Coping Style and the Significance of Verbal-Autonomic Response Dissociations / Andreas Schwerdtfeger and Carl-Walter Kohlmann -- Perceptual and Emotional Aspects of Psychophysiological Individuality / Fernando Lolas -- A Psychodynamic Activation Study of Female Oedipal Fantasies Using Subliminal and Percept-Genetic Techniques / Bert Westerlundh -- Adaptation to Boredom and Stress : The Effects of Defense Mechanisms and Concept Formation on Attentional Performance in Situations with Inadequate Stimulation / Uwe Hentschel, Manfred Kiessling and Arn Hosemann -- Stress, Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity, and Defense Mechanisms / Phebe Cramer -- Part 3. Defense Mechanisms in Psychotherapy and Clinical Research -- Clinical Evaluation of Structure and Process of Defense Mechanisms Before and During Psychoanalytic Treatment / Wolfram Ehlers -- The Measurement of Ego Defenses in Clinical Research / Hope R. Conte, Robert Plutchik and Juris G. Draguns -- Patterns of Adaptation and Percept-Genetic Defenses / I. Alex Rubino and Alberto Siracusano -- Intellectual Performance and Defense Mechanisms in Depression / Uwe Hentschel ... [et al.] -- Defense Mechanisms and Hope as Protective Factors in Physical and Mental Disorders / Louis A. Gottschalk, Janny Fronczek and Robert J. Bechtel -- Defense Mechanism and Physical Health / Shulamith Krcitler -- Patients Confronted with a Life-Threatening Situation : The Importance of Defense Mechanisms in Patients Facing Bone Marrow Transplantation : An Empirical Approach / Norbert Grulke ... [et al.] -- Part 4. Defense Mechanisms in Psychosomatic Research -- Defense Mechanisms, Life Style, and Hypertension / Uwe Hentschel and Frits J. Bekker -- In Defense of Obesity / Olof Rydén -- An Experimental Study of Severe Eating Disorders (Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa) / Per Johnsson, Gudmund Smith and Gunilla Amnér -- Defense Organizations and Coping in the Course of Chronic Disease : a Study on Crohn's Disease / Joachim Küchenhoff -- Part 5. Defense Mechanisms in Neuropsychological context -- Defense Mechanisms and Their Psychophysiological Correlates / Uwe Hentschel, Gudmund Smith and Juris G. Draguns.
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