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Defense Mechanisms in Alexithymia

Psychological Reports, 1999
The Polish version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale–20 and Defense Mechanisms Questionnaire were completed by 387 university students. Scores on alexithymia correlate significantly with scores on the whole group of 12 immature defenses (Pearson r = .39, p<.001) and with scores on such individual immature defense mechanisms as Autistic Fantasy ( r =
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Defense and Defense Mechanisms

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1981
(1981). Defense and Defense Mechanisms. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 50, FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE, pp. 557-569.
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Complement defense mechanisms

Current Opinion in Immunology, 1993
The susceptibility of complement-deficient individuals to various severe infections, and studies of the effector mechanisms involved in the destruction of infectious agents, demonstrate the importance of complement in providing an effective host defense system. It is also becoming increasingly apparent that complement not only plays a role in 'natural'
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Fetal Defense Mechanisms

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1975
The function of the immune system of the fetus and the newborn is suspect because of an increased incidence of infection, poor clinical response to infection, diminished lymphoid tissue, and sluggish immunologic responses to a variety of natural or test antigens.
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Airway Defense Mechanisms

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2012
A multitude of overlapping defenses has evolved to help combat the inventiveness of pathogens seeking to invade us, and because the lung is the most common primary route of infection, it is in the lung that the most varied responses are seen. This article focuses on recent research, particularly in innate immunity, and gives a general overview of the ...
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Understanding Defense Mechanisms

Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 2015
Understanding defense mechanisms is an important part of psychotherapy. In this article, we trace the history of the concept of defense, from its origin with Freud to current views. The issue of defense as an unconscious mechanism is examined. The question of whether defenses are pathological, as well as their relation to pathology, is discussed.
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Thermoregulatory defense mechanisms

Critical Care Medicine, 2009
Core body temperature is normally tightly regulated by an effective thermoregulatory system. Thermoregulatory control is sometimes impaired by serious illness, but more typically remains intact. The primary autonomic defenses against heat are sweating and active precapillary vasodilation; the primary autonomic defenses against cold are arteriovenous ...
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Defensiveness and Defense Mechanisms

Journal of Personality, 1998
This introduction to the Journal of Personality's special issue on the topic of defense mechanisms raises the question of why defenses have been largely overlooked in personality research. Although defenses were originally discussed in the context of psychopathology, for the past 60 years psychodynamically oriented psychologists have understood that ...
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Defense Mechanisms

Recherche en soins infirmiers, 2005
Defence mechanisms are mental operations that are involuntary and unconscious and contribute to reduce internal and external stresses. The concept of defensive organisation or style, defined as a set of defence mechanisms relatively stable and characteristic of personality appears to be a major dimension of personality, from normal to pathology ...
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Defense Mechanisms

2020
Defense mechanisms are mental operations that function outside of awareness. In this sense, they operate in the unconscious mind. Such mechanisms were first identified by Sigmund Freud in connection with psychopathology but later were understood to be part of normal everyday functioning.
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