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Investigating defensive functioning and alexithymia in substance use disorder patients
Background Substance Use Disorder (SUD) causes a great deal of personal suffering for patients. Recent evidence highlights how defenses and emotion regulation may play a crucial part in the onset and development of this disorder.
Alessandro Taurino +3 more
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Increasing Mentalization to Reduce Maladaptive Defense in Patients With Mental Disorders
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
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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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Gender and age aspects of child psychological defenses in child-mother relationships [PDF]
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
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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
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Obesity as a defense mechanism
Abstract INTRODUCTION: 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 ...
Faden, Justin +3 more
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The Role of Defense Mechanisms in Predicting Adolescent Personality Traits [PDF]
The objective of this cross-sectional study was to assess defense mechanisms and evaluate the predictive role of defense mechanisms in personality traits.
Lal Lawmzuali +2 more
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Psychological defense mechanisms in patients with syphilis at different stages of the disease [PDF]
Purpose: the study of psychological defense mechanisms in patients with syphilis at different stages of the disease. Material and methods. We used questionnaire Plutchik-Kellerman-Comte "life style Index".
Filonova A.V., Schneider D.A., Utz S.R.
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AUDREY TURNER’S CONFLICTS AND DEFENSE MECHANISMS IN KINSELLA’S 'FINDING AUDREY'
A story becomes interesting because of the existence of the characters’ conflicts. This research objectives were to investigate the conflicts and defense mechanisms in Audrey Turner, the main character of Finding Audrey novel written by Sophie Kinsella ...
M. Aprianto Budie Nugroho +1 more
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This is the first study to examine psychotherapists' levels of defense mechanisms, their concurrent relationship with professional work-related stress (professional self-doubt and vicarious trauma), and how their levels of defense mechanisms predict the ...
Katie Aafjes-Van Doorn +4 more
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