Process and Personality

Gudmund J. W. Smith, Ingegerd M. Carlsson

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9783110328424
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Filosofia
• Subtopic: Storia e teoria della filosofia

This book is a joint effort of like-minded researchers to define the concept of process within a psychological setting. Although minor differences exist as regards choice of background theory, their common focus is on personality in a broad psychodynamic context. Their definition of personality rests on a series of test instruments that have been validated during decades of thorough and vigorous empirical work. These were originally designed to open up micro-processes underlying the adaptation to or construction of reality, and have subsequently proven diagnostically efficient. Coming from both sides of the Atlantic, the contributors have their background in psychological as well as medical institutions. The contributions in the book are examples of a vital source sustaining our efforts to get a more profound understanding of the vicissitudes of the human mind.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENT
• INTRODUCTIONGudmund Smith and Ingegerd Carlsson
• 1. WHAT IS PERCEPTGENESIS REALLYABOUT?Gudmund J.W. Smith
• 2. PERCEPTGENESIS: ITS ORIGINS,ACCOMPLISHMENTS, ANDPROSPECTSJuris G. Draguns
• 3. A MOSAIC OF SEVENPERCEPTGENETIC THEMESUlf Kragh
• 4. A NOTE ON THE CONCEPT OFSTIMULUS IN PERCEPTGENETICTHEORYAnders Zachrisson
• 5. DEFENSE MECHANISMS INPSYCHOSOMATIC GROUPS: AHEURISTIC MODELMikael Henningsson
• 6. DEFENSE MECHANISMS AND POSTTRAUMATICSYMPTOMS AMONGMALE BOSNIAN AND CROATIANREFUGEES IN PSYCHIATRICTREATMENTGunilla Kivling Bodén and Elisabet Sundbom
• 7. INFLUENCE OF GENDER AND AGEIN THE DEFENSE MECHANISM TESTAMONG ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTSPer Fransson and Elisabet Sundbom
• 8. MATURE AND IMMATUREDEFENSES. A STUDY OF REPRESSORSAND TRAIT ANXIETY GROUPSIngegerd Carlsson and Fredrik Neuman
• 9. HEART RATE VARIABILITY DURINGTHE META-CONTRAST TECHNIQUEPeter Jönsson
• 10. PERCEPTGENETIC TECHNIQUES INTHE STUDY OF COGNITIVE STYLESAND DEFENSE MECHANISMS: FROMASSESSMENT TOWARD PSYCHOTHERAPYUwe Hentschel and Juris G. Draguns
• 11. WHICH TYPE OF NORM FOR S-CWTRESEARCH?I. Alex Rubino, Federica Tozzi, and Alberto Siracusano
• 12. PILOTS AND GROUND OFFICERSINVESTIGATED BY PROCESS TESTSOF CREATIVITY, EXTRAVERSION,AND STRESS CONTROLIngegerd Carlsson, Gunilla Amnér and Gudmund Smith
• 13. VISION FORMING AND BRAINSTORMING: DIFFERENT ASPECTS OFCREATIVITY CAPTURED BY APERCEPT-GENETIC MEASUREMENTAND OTHER MEASUREMENTS OFCREATIVITYEva Hoff and Ingegerd Carlsson
• 14. SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHINGNEW, SOMETHING BORROWED,SOMETHING BLUE: MICROGENESIS INTHE 21st CENTURYJoseph Glicksohn
• 15. ACTUALIZATION AND CAUSALITYJason Brown
• NAME INDEX
• SUBJECT INDEX