Defense Mechanisms
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Defense mechanisms and Major Depressive Disorder in African American women.

29 Sep 2009 This study explored differences in defense use between a group of predominantly African American women diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD; n = 20) and a healthy control sample (n = 20), both from a primary care medical clinic. Patients ... Read more...

Attentional bias for threat in older adults: moderation of the positivity bias by trait anxiety and stimulus modality.

30 Aug 2009 Socioemotional selectivity theory suggests that emotion regulation goals motivate older adults to preferentially allocate attention to positive stimuli and away from negative stimuli. This study examined whether anxiety moderates the effect of the ... Read more...

Interpersonal effects of suffering in older adult caregiving relationships.

30 Aug 2009 Examining the interpersonal effects of suffering in the context of family caregiving is an important step to a broader understanding of how exposure to suffering affects humans. In this review article, the authors first describe existing evidence ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Defense Mechanisms'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Torture and attachment: conscience and the analyst's world-seeing eye. 29 Sep 2009
• Defense mechanisms and Major Depressive Disorder in African American women. 29 Sep 2009
• [Depression in men: stress, risk factors and symptoms] Sep 2009
• Attentional bias for threat in older adults: moderation of the positivity bias by trait anxiety and stimulus modality. 30 Aug 2009
• Interpersonal effects of suffering in older adult caregiving relationships. 30 Aug 2009
• Now you see it, now you don't: age differences in affective reactivity to social tensions. 30 Aug 2009
• Developmental emergence and functionality of Sehnsucht (life longings): the sample case of involuntary childlessness in middle-aged women. 30 Aug 2009
• Self-perception and psychological well-being: the benefits of foreseeing a worse future. 30 Aug 2009
• Specificities of defense mechanisms in bipolar affective disorder: relations with symptoms and therapeutic alliance. 30 Aug 2009
• Some thoughts on denial of mental illness. 30 Aug 2009
• Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory in Cluster C personality disorders and the role of depression, worry, and experiential avoidance. 30 Jul 2009
• Extending knowledge of terror management theory to improve palliative nursing care. 30 Jul 2009
• Is feminine masochism a concept worth reviving? 30 Jul 2009
• Immersion in the surface. 30 Jul 2009
• How children cope when a parent has advanced cancer. 30 Jul 2009
• Research in child psychoanalysis: twenty-five-year follow-up of a severely disturbed child. 30 Jul 2009
• Cognitive coping strategies and stress in parents of children with Down syndrome: a prospective study. 30 Jul 2009
• Longitudinal effects of conflict behaviors on depressive symptoms in young couples. 30 Jul 2009
• The differential association between change request qualities and resistance, problem resolution, and relationship satisfaction. 30 Jul 2009
• The question of drive vs. motive in psychoanalysis: a modest proposal. 21 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Defense Mechanisms'

Definition: Unconscious process used by an individual or a group of individuals in order to cope with impulses, feelings or ideas which are not acceptable at their conscious level; various types include reaction formation, projection and self reversal.

Descriptor UI: D003674

Alternative terms: Defense Mechanisms; Mechanisms, Defense;

Tree Number: F01.393;

Technical Notes: no qualif