Depression: Defence Mechanisms in Speech

1 April 1971

journal article
Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 118 (545) , 471-472
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.118.545.471

Abstract

Weintraub and Aronson have described a method for the study of Psychological Defence Mechanisms through verbal behaviour analysis in psychiatric patients and controls (Weintraub and Aronson, 1962, 1964, 1965 and 1967). In this study we have re-tested their method on a group of middle-aged English depressed patients and matched surgical controls.

Keywords

VERBAL BEHAVIOUR
BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS
DEPRESSED PATIENTS
PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENCE
SURGICAL CONTROLS
DEFENCE MECHANISMS
YIELDING SIGNIFICANT

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