Objective. The aim of this naturalistic study is to examine whether a sample of subjects showed improvements in their defensive functioning after undergoing psychoanalysis. / Methods. Seventeen subjects from the Penn Psychoanalytic Treatment Collection with completed, tape-recorded psychoanalyses had their defense mechanisms rated both for early and late sessions. / Results. The pre-post effect size for the change in overall defensive functioning (ODF) of the sample was large (0.76) and statistically significant. The percentage of subjects who improved (71%) in their ODF was similar to that found by others who studied the same sample using general functioning measures. / Conclusions. These findings provide the first empirical evidence to support a sustained trait-like change in dynamic personality functioning in patients who have undergone psychoanalysis. Future randomized and controlled studies with homogeneous samples are needed to further confirm these findings.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.80868 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Roy, Carmella A. |
| Contributors | Perry, J. Christopher (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Psychiatry.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002031511, proquestno: AAIMQ98733, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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