Relationships Among Self-Reported Defense Mechanisms and Personality Disorder Features

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Segal
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Defense Mechanisms

scholarly journals Pathocharacterological Profiles in Individuals With Personality Disorders With a Criminal History

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-207
Author(s):  
A.A. Dubinsky
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Criminal History ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Psychological Indicators ◽  
Discriminant Models ◽  
High Level ◽  
Organic Personality Disorder

In the article presents the results of the pathocharacterological profiles in individuals with personality disorders and organic personality disorder with a criminal history. It was revealed that the aggressiveness and preference of simple tasks in the structure of self-control corresponded to a high level of manifestation of pathocharacterological features in people with personality disorders. A group of individuals with an organic personality disorder with pronounced pathocharacteristic features characterized: inability to build a model of significant conditions for achieving the goal, severity of anger and hostility, low inhibition of behavior, low level of self-control, the predominance of defense mechanisms such as isolation, denial, displacement and such unproductive coping strategies like confrontation and avoidance. Identified psychological predictors that make a significant contribution to the assignment to groups of individuals with personality disorder and organic personality disorder, taking into account type of the offence. The resulting discriminant models for psychological indicators had a satisfactory and high predictive value.

scholarly journals Comparing the Effectiveness of Mentalization-Based Therapy and Cognitive-Analytic Therapy on Ego Strength and Defense Mechanisms in People With Borderline Personality Disorder

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-339
Author(s):  
Sanaz Einy ◽  
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Mohammad Narimani‎ ◽  
Fariba Sadeghi Movahhed‎3 ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Ego Strength ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Analytic Therapy ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Cognitive Analytic Therapy

Aims Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT) and Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) are psychotherapy approaches offering specific methods for the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Therefore, this study compared the effectiveness of MBT and CAT on improving the ego strength and defense mechanisms in people with BPD. Methods & Materials This was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest and a control group design and follow-up stage. In total, 40 men with BPD were selected by purposive sampling technique. The samples were selected from males admitted to Isar psychiatric Hospital and the psychiatric department of Fatemi Hospital in Ardabil City, Iran, in 2018. The samples were randomly assigned into two experimental groups and one control group. The first experimental group received 20 sessions of MBT, and the second experimental group received 16 sessions of CAT. To collect data, we used psychological inventory ego strength and defense styles questionnaire. The obtained data were analyzed using mixed model Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Scheffe posthoc test. Findings The collected results suggested that both interventions were effective in improving the ego strength and defense mechanisms of people with BPD (P<0.001). However, the effect of MBT on the overall score of the ego strength and the immature defenses was higher than that of the other intervention (P<0.05). Moreover, there was no significant difference in neurotic defense between the two interventions (P>0.05). Conclusion The present research results can support the use of these therapies as part of a non-pharmaceutical treatment program in different treatment centers or psychiatric hospitals.

scholarly journals Beyond splitting: Observer-rated defense mechanisms in borderline personality disorder.

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ueli Kramer ◽  
Yves de Roten ◽  
J. Christopher Perry ◽  
Jean-Nicolas Despland
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Borderline Personality

OBJECT RELATION QUALITY, ALEXITHYMIA, AND DEFENSE MECHANISMS OF DRUG ABUSERS WITH ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 1335-1352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Aleman
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Sexual Satisfaction ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Defense Mechanism ◽  
Object Relation ◽  
Hospital Ward ◽  
Drug Abusers ◽  
Antisocial Personality

The purpose was to investigate, in a sample of drug abusers, whether subscales in the KAPP (Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile, Weinryb, 1992) interview and defense mechanisms explored by the DMTm (Defense Mechanism Technique modified) could differentiate between DSM-III-R clusters and personality disorders (PDs). Forty-seven (47) subjects out of the 84 injecting drug abusers (56%) recruited from a detoxification hospital ward in Sweden had a primary antisocial PD (ASPD) with a comorbid second DSM-III-R PD diagnosis. Pathology was significant on the KAPP subscales of“Dependency and separation,” “Alexithymic traits,” “Normopathic traits,”“Coping with aggressive affects,” and “Sexual satisfaction” in relation to cluster B (dramatic). All subscales were predominant in patients with ASPD/narcissistic PD, who showed the defense mechanism marked denial. The two latter subscales were related to patients with ASPD/borderline PD, who showed the defense of introaggression and the DMTm sign of disappearance of threat. Finally, some psychoanalytic constructs in KAPP and DMTm showed congruence.

scholarly journals Borderline Personality Disorder with Paranoid Features

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adina Isabell Iancu ◽  
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Monica-Georgiana Lazăr ◽  
Simona Trifu ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Axis Ii ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Destructive Behaviors ◽  
Poor Management

This paper aims to evaluate the current and dynamic profile of a 19-year-old with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) with paranoid features. The case allows us to detect how the symptoms associated with BPD evolve on a background of poor management of potentially stressful events. There is a Borderline personality structure with obvious paranoid features, which pushes the patient into dysfunctional behaviors, aggressive acts and suicidal tendencies, the patient's instability, chaotic sexuality, addictive and self-harming behavior being observed. There are elements specific to an antisocial personality with narcissistic notes, which highlight impulsive and manipulative tendencies, accompanied by recurrent conflicts and delinquency. The clinical picture of axis II pathology is highlighted, an accentuated aspect being represented by the deficient defense mechanisms, which prevent the integration of the events in an adequate way. Considering the patient's self-destructive behaviors, impulsiveness, and multiple addictions, in the absence of appropriate treatment, psychotherapy, and/or pharmacological treatment, several future complications may occur, including risks of future problems with the law, self-destructive behaviors, and suicide attempts.

scholarly journals PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA -BETWEEN HYPERSEXUALITY AND SADOMASOCHISM

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-203
Author(s):  
Simona Trifu ◽  
Beligeanu Mihaela ◽  
Iacob Beatrice Ștefana ◽  
Larimian Ștefania Parisa
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Paranoid Schizophrenia ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Schizotypal Personality ◽  
Paternal Line ◽  
Axis I ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

Motivation/Background: In this paper we aimed at clinically analyzing a patient diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, who also displays features specific to multiple personality disorders, in the context of a presentation whose key topic is sexuality. Given the global prevalence and the severity of schizophrenia, it is increasingly important to appropriately adapt and identify the patients' clinical and non-clinical personality profile. This paper also aims at making the profile of a patient diagnosed with axis I disorder ever since the age of 19, who also has got traits specific to certain personality disorders. At the same time, the work provides an interpretation of the behaviour from the psycho-dynamic point of view. Method: The following instruments were used for performing the analysis: a clinical interview, heteroanamnesis, psychological tests, clinical course monitoring, psychodynamic interpretations, defence mechanisms identification, psychiatric observation and treatment. Results: Based on the materials aforementioned, it has been established a possible diagnosis which includes multiple disorders: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, Cotard Syndrome, Kandinsky-Clérambault Syndrome. and there were identified defense mechanisms and coping strategies, under the influence of sexuality and sadomasochistic impulses. Conclusions: It is highlighted the clinical picture of a patient with paranoid schizophrenia, who presents symptoms for differential diagnoses, with disorganized discourse focused on sexuality, with delusional ideation, psychotic manifestation, but also with high suggestibility, especially on the paternal line

scholarly journals Dissociative identity disorder as a wide range of defense mechanisms in children with a history of early childhood trauma

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Marta Cudzik ◽  
Ewelina Soroka ◽  
Marcin Olajossy
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Defense Mechanism ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Dissociative Identity Disorder ◽  
The United States ◽  
Multiple Personality Disorder ◽  
Multiple Personality ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract Introduction: Dissociative identity disorder, also known as multiple personality disorder, involves simultaneous manifestation of multiple alternative personalities in one human body. The disorder is still a puzzle to contemporary researchers. In comparison to the United States, where the detection rate of this disorder is growing, in Poland, it is still a niche issue, unknown to many scientists and clinicians. Rather alarmingly, this situation has remained the same for many years now. Objective: The aim of the present study is to draw attention to the adaptive character of dissociative identity disorder as a defense mechanism in children who have experienced extremely traumatic events in early childhood. The work also sets itself the task of disseminating knowledge about multiple personality disorder in the Polish scientific community, with the hope of encouraging wider research in this area in Poland. Material and Methods: To investigate this issue, we searched articles available in the PubMed, Google Scholar, and Polish Medical Bibliography (Polska Bibliografia Lekarska) databases for the years 1960–2018. The following search terms were used: multiple personality, dissociative identity disorder, dissociative identity disorder and children. On the basis of a meta-analysis of the available literature, we offer a general characterization of the disorder, describe its symptomatology, present several theories of its etiology and conclude it through the prism of its adaptive function. Results and Discussion: From the analysis of the gather data, we can conclude that multiple personality disorder can be a broad variant of the child's defense mechanisms against extreme, traumatic events from childhood, which they try to cope with by creating alter personalities. Abused children create other representations of the Self to be able to rid themselves of suffering, a process that is necessary for them to survive and further develop mentally and physically. Conclusions: There is no doubt that Polish research on this disorder is much needed. It could provide more information on the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of multiple personality. In addition, a better understanding of the issue might bring us closer to the understanding of how the human mind works.

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