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In defence of the criticism of the Defence Mechanism Test (DMT): A reply to Kragh (1998)
Author(s) -
EKEHAMMAR BO,
ZUBER IRENA
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9450.00101
Subject(s) - criticism , psychology , mechanism (biology) , test (biology) , empirical research , contrast (vision) , psychoanalysis , epistemology , social psychology , law , philosophy , political science , paleontology , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology
Kragh ( Scandinavian Journal of Psychology , 1998, 39, 123–124) criticises a recent empirical study of the Defence Mechanism Test (DMT) conducted by the present authors (Zuber & Ekehammar, 1997) concerning methodological and other shortcomings. The present paper reviews and responds to Kragh’s critical points. As to the most serious criticism, the methodological, the main conclusion is that Kragh’s own published empirical studies of the DMT, and also those of other researchers, can be criticised along similar lines. Furthermore, and surprisingly, in contrast to our study, Kragh's main DMT studies do not employ the DMT picture(s) at all.