The Concept of Defense Mechanisms in Contemporary Psychology

2012-12-06 Psychology

Author : Uwe Hentschel
Release : 2012-12-06
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book The Concept of Defense Mechanisms in Contemporary Psychology written by Uwe Hentschel. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the scientific status and the "truth value" of the concept of defense mechanisms? Among contemporary psychologists, three types of answers to this question may be expected. Some would wholeheartedly endorse the theoretical, clinical, and research value of this notion; others would reject it outright. Between these two extremes, a large number of observers, perhaps the majority, would suspend their judgment. Their attitude, compounded of hope and doubt, would capitalize on defense as an interesting and promising concept. At the same time, these psy chologists would express skepticism and disappointment over its clinical limitations, theoretical ambiguity, and research failures. The present volume is primarily addressed to the audience of hopeful skeptics-those who have not given up on the notion of defense, yet have been frustrated by the difficulties of incorporating it into the modern, streamlined structure of psychology. To this end, we have brought together theoretical and empirical contributions germane to defense together with reports about their applications to clinical and personality assessment, especially in relation to psychopathology, psychosomatics, and psycho therapeutic intervention.

Defense Mechanisms

2004-06-12 Psychology

Author : Uwe Hentschel
Release : 2004-06-12
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Defense Mechanisms written by Uwe Hentschel. This book was released on 2004-06-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 contstruct of defense mechanisms into mainstream psychology Provides explanations of the theoretical basis of the construct of defense mechanisms

The Concept of Defense Mechanisms in Contemporary Psychology

1993-10-22 Defense mechanisms (Psychology)

Author : Uwe Hentschel
Release : 1993-10-22
Genre : Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
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Download or read book The Concept of Defense Mechanisms in Contemporary Psychology written by Uwe Hentschel. This book was released on 1993-10-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors have brought together theoretical and empirical contributions on the topic of defense together with studies on the applications of these constructs to clinical and personality assessment, especially with regard to psychopathology, psychosomatics, and psychotherapeutic intervention. This systematic and up-to-date overview highlights the advantages and potentials of currently available approaches to empirical research on defense mechanisms. The text is divided into five practical sections, each containing pertinent chapters written by international authorities in the field: General Issues; Methodological Considerations; Personality and Applied Psychology; Clinical Assessment and Psychotherapeutic Interventions; and Psychosomatics. This book serves as an invitation to develop new avenues of experimental and psychodynamic investigation in this rapidly growing field as well as to refine and extend the existing approaches.

The Development of Defense Mechanisms

2012-12-06 Psychology

Author : Phebe Cramer
Release : 2012-12-06
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book The Development of Defense Mechanisms written by Phebe Cramer. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that the human mind-that faculty of the intellect which we use to define and discern the truth-might also be used to deceive itself is not new. The classic orator Demosthenes warned of this possibility in 349 B.C. when he wrote that "Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self; what a man wishes he generally believes to be true." 1 Even Jean Jacques Rousseau, who suggested the possibility of man as "noble savage," alerts us to this paradox, when he writes "Jamais fa nature ne nous trompe; c'est toujours nous qui nous trompons" ("Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves). 2 But it was Sigmund Freud who placed this idea firmly into the field of psychopathology and then, later, into a general psychological theory. According to Freud, understanding the function of a defense mechanism means not only fathoming the origin of pathological symptoms but also comprehending a model of the mind that includes both conscious and unconscious mental processes. From this initial focus on the general process of defense, Freud and his followers went on to identify various forms this process might take, with the result that today we have a list of 3 more than 37 defense mechanisms described in the literature.

Defense Mechanisms in the Counseling Process

1998-03-24 Psychology

Author : Arthur J. Clark
Release : 1998-03-24
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Defense Mechanisms in the Counseling Process written by Arthur J. Clark. This book was released on 1998-03-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `[The client material]... stimulated thought and reflection... Clark presented a large number of very tricky case studies and illustrated all manner of different and interesting ways of responding to clients who find it difficult to engage with the process of counselling. Furthermore, this is done in the framework of a model of counselling which integrates humanistic, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural theories in a most interesting and convincing way. In the end, I learned quite a lot and found myself pondering the case histories days later' - Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling The understanding of defence mechanisms is vital to counsellors and psychotherapists, particula

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