PERCEPTUAL DEFENSE MECHANISMS REGISTERED BY THE META-CONTRAST TECHNIQUE IN NORMAL AND PATHOLOGIC CHILDREN

L indbom , K. Perceptual defense mechanisms registered by the meta-con-trast technique in normal and pathologic children. Scand. J. Psychol ., 1968, 9, 109–116.—Patterns of perceptual defense mechanisms in lo-year-old children, on the whole, agree with adult patterns, as measured with the meta-contrast technique (MCT). The technique clearly differentiates between a clinical and a normal group and, in the clinical group of children, also between psychiatric symptom classes.