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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452906403321

Titolo

Process and personality [[electronic resource] ] : actualization of the personal world with process-oriented methods / / Gudmund J.W. Smith, Ingegerd M. Carlsson (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2008

ISBN

3-11-032842-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Process Thought ; ; 17

Altri autori (Persone)

SmithGudmund J. W

CarlssonIngegerd M

Disciplina

155.28

Soggetti

Personality assessment

Psychodiagnostics

Perception - Testing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- INTRODUCTION / Smith, Gudmund / Carlsson, Ingegerd -- 1. WHAT IS PERCEPTGENESIS REALLY ABOUT? / Smith, Gudmund J.W. -- 2. PERCEPTGENESIS: ITS ORIGINS, ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND PROSPECTS / Draguns, Juris G. -- 3. A MOSAIC OF SEVEN PERCEPTGENETIC THEMES / Kragh, Ulf -- 4. A NOTE ON THE CONCEPT OF STIMULUS IN PERCEPTGENETIC THEORY / Zachrisson, Anders -- 5. DEFENSE MECHANISMS IN PSYCHOSOMATIC GROUPS: A HEURISTIC MODEL / Henningsson, Mikael -- 6. DEFENSE MECHANISMS AND POSTTRAUMATIC SYMPTOMS AMONG MALE BOSNIAN AND CROATIAN REFUGEES IN PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT / Bodén, Gunilla Kivling / Sundbom, Elisabet -- 7. INFLUENCE OF GENDER AND AGE IN THE DEFENSE MECHANISM TEST AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS / Fransson, Per / Sundbom, Elisabet -- 8. MATURE AND IMMATURE DEFENSES. A STUDY OF REPRESSORS AND TRAIT ANXIETY GROUPS / Carlsson, Ingegerd / Neuman, Fredrik -- 9. HEART RATE VARIABILITY DURING THE META-CONTRAST TECHNIQUE / Jönsson, Peter -- 10. PERCEPTGENETIC TECHNIQUES IN THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE STYLES AND DEFENSE MECHANISMS: FROM ASSESSMENT



TOWARD PSYCHOTHERAPY / Hentschel, Uwe / Draguns, Juris G. -- 11. WHICH TYPE OF NORM FOR S-CWT RESEARCH? / Rubino, I. Alex / Tozzi, Federica / Siracusano, Alberto -- 12. PILOTS AND GROUND OFFICERS INVESTIGATED BY PROCESS TESTS OF CREATIVITY, EXTRAVERSION, AND STRESS CONTROL / Carlsson, Ingegerd / Amnér, Gunilla / Smith, Gudmund -- 13. VISION FORMING AND BRAIN STORMING: DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF CREATIVITY CAPTURED BY A PERCEPT-GENETIC MEASUREMENT AND OTHER MEASUREMENTS OF CREATIVITY / Hoff, Eva / Carlsson, Ingegerd -- 14. SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE: MICROGENESIS IN THE 21st CENTURY / Glicksohn, Joseph -- 15. ACTUALIZATION AND CAUSALITY / Brown, Jason -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

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