Edited by
Uwe Hentschel, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Gudmund Smith, Psykologiska Institutionen, Lund, Sweden
Juris G Draguns, Pennsylvania State University
Wolfram Ehlers, Stuttgart, Germany
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.
Included in series
Advances in Psychology
Audience:
Senior undergraduate as well as graduate students and academics in personality theory, individual differences, clinical and diagnostic psychology.
