Chapter 1: Defense Mechanisms: Current Approaches to Research and Measurement Chapter 2: A Critical Perspective on Defense Mechanisms Chapter 3: Defense Mechanisms in the Clinic, the Laboratory, and the Social World: Toward Closing the Gaps Chapter 4: What is a Mechanism of Defense? Chapter 5: Percept-Genesis and the Study of Defensive Processes Percept-Genetic, Projective, and Rating Techniques for the Assessment of Defense Mechanisms Chapter 6: Defense Mechanisms and Cognitive Styles in Projective Techniques and Other Diagnostic Instruments Chapter 7: Percept-Genetic Identification of Defense Chapter 8: Contributions to the Construct Validity of the Defense Mechanism Test Chapter 9: Studying Defense Mechanisms in Psychotherapy using the Defense Mechanism Rating Scales Chapter 10: The Motivational and Cognitive Determinants of Defense Mechanisms Chapter 11: Repressive Coping Style and the Significance of Verbal-Autonomic Response Dissociations Chapter 12: Perceptual and Emotional Aspects of Psychophysiological Individuality Chapter 13: A Psychodynamic Activation Study of Female Oedipal Fantasies Using Subliminal and Percept-Genetic Techniques Chapter 14: Adaptation to Boredom and Stress: The Effects of Defense Mechanisms and Concept Formation on Attentional Performance in Situations with Inadequate Stimulation Chapter 15: Stress, Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity, and Defense Mechanisms Defence mechanisms inpsychotherapy and clinical research Chapter 16: Clinical Evaluation of Structure and Process of Defense Mechanisms Before and During Psychoanalytic Treatment Chapter 17: The Measurement of Ego Defenses in Clinical Research Chapter 18: Patterns of Adaptation and Percept-Genetic Defenses Chapter 19: Intellectual Performance and Defense Mechanisms in Depression Chapter 20: Defense Mechanisms and Hope as Protective Factors in Physical and Mental Disorders Chapter 21: Defense Mechanisms and Physical Health Chapter 22: Patients Confronted With a Life-Threatening Situation: The Importance of Defense Mechanisms in Patients Facing Bone Marrow Transplantation. An Empirical Approach Defense mechanisms inPsychomatic Research Chapter 23: Defense Mechanisms, Life Style, and Hypertension Chapter 24: In Defense of Obesity Chapter 25: An Experimental Study of Severe Eating Disorders (Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa) Chapter 26: Defense Organizations and Coping in the Course of Chronic Disease: A Study on Crohns Disease Defense mechanisms in neuropsychological contexts Chapter 27: Defense Mechanisms and Their Psychophysiological Correlates Index Contributors