Defense Mechanisms. Theoretical, Research and Clinical Perspectives

Defense Mechanisms. Theoretical, Research and Clinical Perspectives
Published: 2004-06-26 | ISBN: 0444512632 | PDF | 664 pages | 36.60 MB

The part is focused on defense mechanisms taken in the character of theoretical constructs as well as the possibilities of their empirical registry by different methods, and the request of these constructs in different fields of psychology by special regard to concurrent and predictive validity. It is argued that defense mechanisms are in sundry ways to be seen as integrative constructs, not indispensably restricted to psychoanalytic theory and that the possible fields of their application have a expanded ranging scope, comprising many fields of psychology. Consequently empirical studies are presented from the fields of clinical and stricture psychology, psychotherapy research and psychosomatic phenomena and diseases. Methodological questions own a heavy weight in most of these studies.