Defense mechanisms in alcoholics attending outpatient treatment. Results from the MCT-test (Meta-Contrast Technique) |
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Authors: | AGNETA Ö JEHAGEN,GUDMUND J. W. SMITH |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychiatry, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Defensive strategies were studied in 72 alcoholics participating in outpatient treatment by using, before the treatment started, the Meta-Contrast Technique, MCT, a percept-genetic method. Alcoholics had less often adaptive strategies than controls. A lack of adaptive defense strategies was related to a more impaired psychic status, more psychological benefits from drinking, and more psychiatric symptoms but not to severity of alcoholism or results of psychometric tests (intellectual level, field-dependence, spatial performance). It does not seem inconceivable that the MCT could be used as a diagnostic tool in treatment planning. |
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Keywords: | Alcoholism treatment defenses personality percept-genetic technique |
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