Description: Psychological Adaptive Mechanisms : Ego Defense Recognition in Practice and Research, Hardcover by Beresford, Thomas P., ., ISBN 0199794499, ISBN-13 9780199794492, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK This book will demonstrate how to use novel, systematic method for recognizing psychological adaptive mechanisms (known in psychoanalytic theory as ego defenses) in clinical encounters. This clinical method is based in published theoretical and empirical studies of these mechanisms over the
past 14 years as well as working with successive classes of mental health trainees of varying disciplines at the University of Colorado. The result is an approach that trainees both apprehend and find useful. This work will offer the mental health disciplines, and even wider audiences, a platform
both for 1) clinical use in everyday practice, 2) continuing clinical studies of adaptive psychology as well as 3) direct application of psychological adaptive mechanisms theory in clinical research that will improve the diagnosis and treatment of persons with mental or emotional disorders.
This an important empirical model for understanding how humans adapt to the stressful experiences of their lives. They have developmental, biological, and evolutionary significance and all of these will be discussed in th. Psychological Adaptive Mechanisms are observable behaviors that range
on a developmental hierarchy from the Primitive defenses of normal early childhood and of major mental illness in adults, through the Mature defenses of fully functioning adulthood. They also serve to limit and to direct the human anxiety response, giving the "fight or flight" reaction to threat
many more than those two classically described behavioral mechanisms are likely transduced by the brain and, in providing wider ranges of adaptive behavior, most probably reflect an evolutionary selection towards greater flexibility of adaptation.
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Book Title: Psychological Adaptive Mechanisms : Ego Defense Recognition in Pr
Number of Pages: 338 Pages
Publication Name: Psychological Adaptive Mechanisms: Ego Defense Recognition in Practice and Research
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item Height: 235 mm
Subject: Psychology
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 614 g
Subject Area: Clinical Psychology
Author: Thomas P. Beresford
Item Width: 194 mm
Format: Hardcover
