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Abstraction Ability
Act III
anxiety
Author_Jerome S. Blackman
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Autonomous Ego Function
Borderline Personality Organization
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Chronic
clinical psychopathology
Compromise Formation
defence mechanisms
depressive
Depressive Affect
ego
Ego Function
Ego Strength
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functions
fusion
Genital Phase
Held
High Risk
High Suicide Risk
Hoi Polloi
Impulse Control
Intact Reality Testing
Masochistic Provocation
mental health diagnosis
object relations theory
Post Script
Primary Process Fantasy
psychodynamic assessment
psychological defence identification guide
reality
Runaway Bunny
self-object
Self-object Fusion
Self-object Fusion Anxiety
strength
supportive psychotherapy techniques
testing
Therapeutic Approach
Unpleasant Affects
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415946957
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
