Is there an optimal adjustment of interpretation to the patients' level of defensive functioning?

American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-361

  Hersoug, Anne Grete ^a,b   Høglend, Per ^a   Bøgwald, Kjell Petter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARANOID PSYCHOSIS; PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOIDISM; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SELF EVALUATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 15844367340     PISSN: 00029564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2004.58.3.349     Document Type: Article

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