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Personality, personality disorders, and defense mechanisms
1Department of Psychology, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA. phebe.cramer@williams.edu
Journal of Personality
|September 14, 1999
Abstract:
The prototype approach was used to assess the presence of personality features associated with borderline, narcissistic, histrionic, and psychopathic personality syndromes in a sample of 91 young adults from the Block and Block (1980) longitudinal study. These personality prototypes were found to be related to the use of denial and projection, and especially to the immature manifestations of those defenses, in ways consistent with theory.