| Defense Mechanisms: Theoretical, Research and Clinical Perspectives Volume 136 Contributor(s): Hentschel, Uwe (Editor), Smith, Gudmund (Editor), Draguns, Juris G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0444512632 ISBN-13: 9780444512635 Publisher: North-Holland OUR PRICE: $135.63 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: 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 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Personality - Psychology | Clinical Psychology - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 155.2 |
| LCCN: 2004050693 |
| Series: Advances in Psychology |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6.24" W x 9.06" (2.49 lbs) 664 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |