| 101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself [With Pocket Reference] Contributor(s): Blackman, Jerome S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415946956 ISBN-13: 9780415946957 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: Blackman explains how to detect and interpret a defense and offers supportive therapy techniques. Practical tips interspersed throughout this text make it an excellent reference tool for students and clinicians, while the user-friendly features allow all readers to experience how psychological defenses operate in everyday life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - General - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Emotions |
| Dewey: 616.89 |
| LCCN: 2003010499 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Defenses are mental operations that restore or maintain psychic equilibrium when people feel that they cannot manage emotions that stem from conflict; they remove components of unpleasant emotions from conscious awareness. For example, using sex, food, or hostility to relieve tension - that's a defense - catalogued here as entry number 68: Impulsivity. Screaming at someone can be a defense. Playing golf can be a defense. So can saving money. Or at least all of these activities may involve defenses. In this book, Blackman catalogs 101 defenses - the most ever compiled - with descriptions practical for use in everyday assessment and treatment of psychopathology. He explains how to detect and interpret a defense and offers supportive therapy techniques. The many practical tips interspersed throughout this text make it an excellent reference tool for students and experienced clinicians, while the user-friendly features allow all readers to experience how psychological defenses operate in everyday life. |