Defense Mechanisms
Theoretical, Research and Clinical Perspectives
Wolfram Ehlers editor Uwe Hentschel editor Juris G Draguns editor Gudmund Smith editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Elsevier Science & Technology
Published:12th Jun '04
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This is a comprehensive overview on the topic of defense mechanisms
Focuses on defense mechanisms as theoretical constructs and 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. This book explains the theoretical basis of the construct of defense mechanisms.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.
ISBN: 9780444512635
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1150g
664 pages