Putative Markers of Repression in Patients Suffering From Mental Disorders

Frontiers in Psychology

Aram Kehyayan¹ 

关键词: free association;    repression;    psychodynamic conflict;    skin conductance response;    patients;    operationalized psychodynamic diagnosis;    psychoanalysis;    neuropsychoanalysis;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02109

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background: The concept of psychodynamic conflict is essential to psychodynamic theory and therapy. In classical psychodynamic therapy, unconscious conflict themes need to be identified by the therapist and brought to the patient’s awareness, in order to work through and ultimately solve them. According to theory, touching upon conflict-related topics leads to arousal, followed by activation of defense mechanisms such as repression. Starting with C.G. Jung’s association studies more than 100 years ago, various proposals have been made to investigate psychodynamic conflicts based on free association and psychophysiological measures. This study presents an attempt to identify and differentiate between psychodynamic conflict themes in patients, using an adopted version of Jung’s paradigm that had in previous studies been applied to healthy subjects.

【 授权许可】

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