- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; New Ed edition (8 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415946948
- ISBN-13: 978-0415946940
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Defenses are mental operations that restore or maintain psychic equilibrium when people feel that they cannot manage emotions that stem from conflict; they remove components of unpleasant emotions from conscious awareness. For example, using sex, food, or hostility to relieve tension - that's a defense - catalogued here as entry number 68: Impulsivity. Screaming at someone can be a defense. Playing golf can be a defense. So can saving money. Or at least all of these activities may involve defenses. In this book, Blackman catalogs 101 defenses - the most ever compiled - with descriptions practical for use in everyday assessment and treatment of psychopathology. He explains how to detect and interpret a defense and offers supportive therapy techniques. The many practical tips interspersed throughout this text make it an excellent reference tool for students and experienced clinicians, while the user-friendly features allow all readers to experience how psychological defenses operate in everyday life.
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Jerome S. Blackman, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Eastern Virginia Medical School and a training civilian supervisor and consultant to the faculty at the Naval Medical Center Department of Psychiatry in Portsmouth, Virginia.
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Defence number 1...
Projection - you attribute your own stuff to another person...
Jerome Blackman has created a magnificent resource to help clinicians and anyone who is interested in the theory of defence mechanisms to look up certain behavioural patterns from a psychoanalytic perspective.
It has a very handy list in laymans terms at the very beginning of the book and I just chose to mention projection because we all do it - and quite often.
I enjoy looking at reasons why and different perspectives of the same thing - why?
Because I tend to tell myself one thing and then go and actually do something else...
Strange but true. This book sort of bridges the gap between being deep and academic and actually being useful.
Not that academic isn't useful - just that some books are a bit dry and quite dense and this book reads really well.
Projection - you attribute your own stuff to another person...
Jerome Blackman has created a magnificent resource to help clinicians and anyone who is interested in the theory of defence mechanisms to look up certain behavioural patterns from a psychoanalytic perspective.
It has a very handy list in laymans terms at the very beginning of the book and I just chose to mention projection because we all do it - and quite often.
I enjoy looking at reasons why and different perspectives of the same thing - why?
Because I tend to tell myself one thing and then go and actually do something else...
Strange but true. This book sort of bridges the gap between being deep and academic and actually being useful.
Not that academic isn't useful - just that some books are a bit dry and quite dense and this book reads really well.
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As a beginner in the study of Freudian concepts I found this book very helpful with its comprehensive list of defenses and their approximate order of appearance. A few of the defenses however have rather ellusive definitions that might be reviewed in future editions.
3 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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5 Sep 2004
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A useful overview of defenses; a bit of irony might have helped.
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