Psychological adaptive mechanisms : ego defense recognition in practice and research / by Thomas P. Beresford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beresford, Thomas P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Defense mechanisms (Psychology).

Adaptability (Psychology).

Stress (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book will demonstrate how to use novel, systematic method for recognizing psychological adaptive mechanisms (known in psychoanalytic theory as ego defenses) in clinical encounters. This clinical method is based in published theoretical and empirical studies of these mechanisms over the past 14 years as well as working with successive classes of mental health trainees of varying disciplines at the University of Colorado. The result is an approach that trainees both apprehend and find useful. This work will offer the mental health disciplines, and even wider audiences, a platform both for 1

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Humans Adapt; Chapter 2: The Clinical Model; Chapter 3: The Clinical Method; Chapter 4: Denial; Chapter 5: Avoidance/Distortion; Chapter 6: Psychotic Projection; Chapter 7: Acting Out; Chapter 8: Passive Aggression; Chapter 9: Hypochondriasis; Chapter 10: Schizoid Fantasy; Chapter 11: Neurotic Projection; Chapter 12: Repression; Chapter 13: Intellectualization, or Isolation of Affect; Chapter 14: Dissociation; Chapter 15: Displacement; Chapter 16: Reaction Formation; Chapter 17: Suppression; Chapter 18: Anticipation; Chapter 19: Altruism

Chapter 20: SublimationChapter 21: Humor; Chapter 22: Clinical and Practical Uses; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-979450-2