Empirical studies of defense style: Relationships with psychopathology and change

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 263-278

  Bond, Michael ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Defense mechanisms; Defense styles

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANXIETY DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; BULIMIA; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEFENSE STYLE QUESTIONNAIRE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; PANIC; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE; TRANSFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 9244239230     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10673220490886167     Document Type: Review

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