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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Primitive Defense"”.
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Primitive Defenses and Unilateral Termination of Psychotherapy: Are the Lerner Defense Scales Useful in Predicting Premature Termination in Psychotherapy?
… whether a predictive relationship exists between primitive defense scores on the Lerner Defense Scales and premature termination from psychotherapy. A review of literature that described the history and development of the construct of primitive defense, as well as the purpose and formation of the …
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Object Relations in Children's Projective Testing: Applying the Mutuality of Autonomy Scale to the Thematic Apperception Test
… concurrent validity between MOA scores and the Defense Mechanisms Manual (DMM), a well-validated tool for assessing developmental level of defenses on the TAT (Cramer, 1991). In addition, this work contributes to the need for empirically-validated, systematic approaches to interpreting TAT data …
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Winnicott, Bowlby and Rogers: the development of the self in relation to others
… developmental theories to understand primitive defense strategies and contain transferential enactments. The contribution of this research in the field of psychoanalysis includes the consideration of the traumatic roots of homelessness and the application of Winnicott’s, Bowlby’s and …