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Area of Science:

  • Psychotherapy research
  • Psychoanalytic treatment
  • Defense mechanisms

Background:

  • Psychotherapy research typically focuses on patient defenses.
  • Therapist's defensive functioning may influence patient's coping strategies.
  • Understanding therapist defenses is crucial for patient progress.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore therapist defense mechanisms and their link to patient defense changes.
  • To examine dyadic defense interactions in psychoanalytic therapy.
  • To assess defense levels across different treatment phases.

Main Methods:

  • Exploratory case study design.
  • Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales (DMRS) applied to 20 sessions.
  • Analysis of therapist-patient defenses, levels, and sequences in early, middle, and late phases.

Main Results:

  • Patient's defensive functioning improved over time, with a slight decline at the end.
  • Therapist's defenses remained stable, predominantly high-neurotic and mature.
  • Patients initially mirrored therapist defenses, later developing independent, higher-level defenses.

Conclusions:

  • Therapist's role is key in fostering patient's adaptive coping mechanisms.
  • Therapeutic interaction and defense modeling support patient's internalization of new strategies.
  • Defense mechanisms serve as valuable process-based outcome measures in psychotherapy.