Changes in Defensive Functioning in Completed Psychoanalyses
The Penn Psychoanalytic Treatment Collection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8333832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carmella A Roy (McGill University Faculty of Medicine at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, S.M.B.D. Jewish General Hospital,), Carmella Roy (Jewish General Hospital), Christopher J Perry (0000-0001-9471-1193, McGill University Faculty of Medicine at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, S.M.B.D. Jewish General Hospital), Lester Luborsky (University of Pennsylvania), Elisabeth Banon (McGill University Faculty of Medicine at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, S.M.B.D. Jewish General Hospital) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 399-415 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0003065109333357 |
| PMID | 19516058 |
| OpenAlex | W2162144433 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
Theory predicts that patients completing psychoanalysis should improve in their dynamic functioning. The aim of this naturalistic study is to examine whether a sample of 17 subjects from the Penn Psychoanalytic Treatment Collection with completed, tape-recorded psychoanalyses demonstrated improvement in one dynamic aspect: their defense mechanisms. The pre-post effect size for the change in overall defensive functioning (ODF) of the sample was large (.76) and statistically significant ( p = .01). The percentage of subjects who improved in their ODF (71%) was similar to that found by others who studied the same sample using general functioning measures. These findings provide the first empirical evidence to support a trait-like change in dynamic personality functioning in patients who have undergone psychoanalysis. Randomized controlled studies with homogeneous samples are needed to further confirm these findings
Homogeneous · Personality · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Sample (material) · Sample size determination · Statistics · Trait · Clinical Psychology · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Schizophrenia research and treatment
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |