Defense mechanisms in risk of suicide and risk of violence
- 1 August 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 146 (8) , 1027-1031
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1027
Abstract
This paper reports on an empirical study of defense mechanisms in 60 psychiatric inpatients. Eight defenses.sbd.compensation, denial, displacement, intellectualization, projection, reaction formation, regression, and repression.sbd.were studied in the context of a two-stage model of suicidal and violent behavior. The results showed that use of regression as a defense differentiated suicidal from nonsuicidal patients, and use of displacement differentiated violent from nonviolent patients. Repression tended to turn aggression inward, and projection and denial turned aggression outward.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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