Process and personality : actualization of the personal world with process-oriented methods / Gudmund J.W. Smith, Ingegerd M. Carlsson (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Gudmund J. W.

Carlsson, Ingegerd M.

Series:

Process Thought

Process Thought ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality assessment--Congresses.

Personality assessment.

Psychodiagnostics--Congresses.

Psychodiagnostics.

Perception--Testing--Congresses.

Perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book is a joint effort of like-minded researchers to define the concept of process within a psychological setting. Although minor differences exist as regards choice of background theory, their common focus is on personality in a broad psychodynamic context. Their definition of personality rests on a series of test instruments that have been validated during decades of thorough and vigorous empirical work. These were originally designed to open up micro-processes underlying the adaptation to or construction of reality, and have subsequently proven diagnostically efficient. Coming from

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

INTRODUCTION / Smith, Gudmund / Carlsson, Ingegerd

1. WHAT IS PERCEPTGENESIS REALLY ABOUT? / Smith, Gudmund J.W.

2. PERCEPTGENESIS: ITS ORIGINS, ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND PROSPECTS / Draguns, Juris G.

3. A MOSAIC OF SEVEN PERCEPTGENETIC THEMES / Kragh, Ulf

4. A NOTE ON THE CONCEPT OF STIMULUS IN PERCEPTGENETIC THEORY / Zachrisson, Anders

5. DEFENSE MECHANISMS IN PSYCHOSOMATIC GROUPS: A HEURISTIC MODEL / Henningsson, Mikael

6. DEFENSE MECHANISMS AND POSTTRAUMATIC SYMPTOMS AMONG MALE BOSNIAN AND CROATIAN REFUGEES IN PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT / Bodén, Gunilla Kivling / Sundbom, Elisabet

7. INFLUENCE OF GENDER AND AGE IN THE DEFENSE MECHANISM TEST AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS / Fransson, Per / Sundbom, Elisabet

8. MATURE AND IMMATURE DEFENSES. A STUDY OF REPRESSORS AND TRAIT ANXIETY GROUPS / Carlsson, Ingegerd / Neuman, Fredrik

9. HEART RATE VARIABILITY DURING THE META-CONTRAST TECHNIQUE / Jönsson, Peter

10. PERCEPTGENETIC TECHNIQUES IN THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE STYLES AND DEFENSE MECHANISMS: FROM ASSESSMENT TOWARD PSYCHOTHERAPY / Hentschel, Uwe / Draguns, Juris G.

11. WHICH TYPE OF NORM FOR S-CWT RESEARCH? / Rubino, I. Alex / Tozzi, Federica / Siracusano, Alberto

12. PILOTS AND GROUND OFFICERS INVESTIGATED BY PROCESS TESTS OF CREATIVITY, EXTRAVERSION, AND STRESS CONTROL / Carlsson, Ingegerd / Amnér, Gunilla / Smith, Gudmund

13. VISION FORMING AND BRAIN STORMING: DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF CREATIVITY CAPTURED BY A PERCEPT-GENETIC MEASUREMENT AND OTHER MEASUREMENTS OF CREATIVITY / Hoff, Eva / Carlsson, Ingegerd

14. SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE: MICROGENESIS IN THE 21st CENTURY / Glicksohn, Joseph

15. ACTUALIZATION AND CAUSALITY / Brown, Jason

NAME INDEX

SUBJECT INDEX

CONTRIBUTORS

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

3-938793-89-9

3-11-032842-9

OCLC:

851972158