Working With Sidney Blatt: Developing Interactions
1a Department of Psychology , Williams College.
Journal of Personality Assessment
|January 7, 2016
This tribute to Sidney J. Blatt describes our collaboration in the study of therapy change among hospitalized patients at the Austen Riggs Center. In particular, the use of defense mechanisms by these patients, and the relation of defenses to change in personality after treatment, were examined. The unfolding of this work is described.
This tribute to Sidney J. Blatt describes our collaboration in the study of therapy change among hospitalized patients at the Austen Riggs Center. In particular, the use of defense mechanisms by these patients, and the relation of defenses to change in personality after treatment, were examined. The unfolding of this work is described.
