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.
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Jerome S. Blackman, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Eastern Virginia Medical School and a training civilian supervisor and consultant to the faculty at the Naval Medical Center Department of Psychiatry in Portsmouth, Virginia.
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As a beginner in the study of Freudian concepts I found this book very helpful with its comprehensive list of defenses and their approximate order of appearance. A few of the defenses however have rather ellusive definitions that might be reviewed in future editions.
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A useful overview of defenses; a bit of irony might have helped.
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Let's recap the definitions of defense and unpleasurable affect. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
projective blaming, masochistic provocation, libidinal regression, primary process fantasy, autonomous ego functions, defense constellations, unpleasurable sensation, distancing defenses, fusion anxiety, counterphobic behavior, abnormal fixation, integrative functioning, temporal regression, ego regression, abstraction ability, borderline personality organization, observing ego, depressive affect, ego interest, identification with the victim, supportive techniques, identification with the aggressor, psychotic people, genital phase, ego weaknesses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Let's recap the definitions of defense and unpleasurable affect. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
projective blaming, masochistic provocation, libidinal regression, primary process fantasy, autonomous ego functions, defense constellations, unpleasurable sensation, distancing defenses, fusion anxiety, counterphobic behavior, abnormal fixation, integrative functioning, temporal regression, ego regression, abstraction ability, borderline personality organization, observing ego, depressive affect, ego interest, identification with the victim, supportive techniques, identification with the aggressor, psychotic people, genital phase, ego weaknesses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anna Freud, Bizet's Carmen, Alzheimer's Disease, State Department New!
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- El conejito andarin / The Runaway Bunny (Spanish Edition) by Margaret Wise Brown on page 103
- Studies On Hysteria (Basic Books Classics) by Joseph Breuer in Back Matter
- The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown on page 103
- The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: Volume 47 (The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Se) by Dr. Albert J. Solnit M.D. in Back Matter
- The Dynamics of Human Adjustment (Psychology Classics) by Percival Mallon Symonds in Front Matter
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