Defense mechanisms theoretical, research and clinical perspectives (Elsevier, 2004)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part I. General Issues -- Defense Mechanisms : Current Approaches to Research and Measurement / Uwe Hentschel [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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