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Obesity as a defense mechanism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Surgery Case Reports, 2013
As the rate of obesity and bariatric surgery rise, various psychosocial etiologies contributing to obesity are being explored, and it is not uncommon to discover that a patient has been a victim of past abuse.A 37-year-old female was hospitalized for intractable nausea and vomiting following a laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass performed a month and
Robin Hanson   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Relationship between Defense Patterns and DSM-5 Maladaptive Personality Domains

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Aim: Research has extensively examined the relationship between defense mechanisms (DM) and personality traits. However, no study to date has explored if specific defenses (alone or in combination) are able to predict dysfunctional variants of ...
Antonella Granieri   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender and age aspects of child psychological defenses in child-mother relationships [PDF]

open access: yesPsychology in Russia: State of Art, 2016
The high level of stress in modern society poses a need to study family factors and resources for the development of children’s defense mechanisms in the current social environment.
Bogdanova, Maria V.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mentalization, attachment, and defense mechanisms: a Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual-2-oriented empirical investigation

open access: yesResearch in Psychotherapy, 2021
Mentalizing capacities depends on the quality of primary attachment interactions with caregivers who thinks of the child as a subject with mental states.
Annalisa Tanzilli   +6 more
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Increasing Mentalization to Reduce Maladaptive Defense in Patients With Mental Disorders

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Background: There are indications of associations between the ability to mentalize and psychological defense mechanisms. However, only a few studies have focused on these associations, and even fewer have included empirical analyses. In the present study,
Markus C. Hayden   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Jasmonate-induced defense mechanisms in the belowground antagonistic interaction between Pythium arrhenomanes and Meloidogyne graminicola in rice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Next to their essential roles in plant growth and development, phytohormones play a central role in plant immunity against pathogens. In this study we studied the previously reported antagonism between the plant-pathogenic oomycete Pythium arrhenomanes ...
Alam, Md. Zahangir   +11 more
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Protective and coping behaviour of representatives of socionomic professions with different professional experience

open access: yesВестник университета, 2021
The results of a theoretical and empirical study of psychological defenses and coping strategies of behaviour among employees of social service institutions are presented.
L. M. Popova, T. S. Pukhareva
doaj   +1 more source

Nictaba homologs from Arabidopsis thaliana are involved in plant stress responses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Plants are constantly exposed to a wide range of environmental stresses, but evolved complicated adaptive and defense mechanisms which allow them to survive in unfavorable conditions.
Eggermont, Lore   +2 more
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Narcissism and defense mechanisms in women [PDF]

open access: yesPsihološka Obzorja, 2014
The purpose of this research was to examine how the level of covert and overt narcissism is connected to the frequency of the use of defense mechanisms such as denial, repression, regression, projection, compensation, projection, intellectualization ...
Sabina Bele
doaj   +1 more source

HIV Exploits Antiviral Host Innate GCN2-ATF4 Signaling for Establishing Viral Replication Early in Infection. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Antiviral innate host defenses against acute viral infections include suppression of host protein synthesis to restrict viral protein production.
Clarissa Santos Rocha   +9 more
core   +2 more sources

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