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Defense mechanisms in alcoholics attending outpatient treatment. Results from the MCT‐test (Meta‐Contrast Technique)
Author(s) -
ÖJEHAGEN AGNETA,
SMITH GUDMUND J. W.
Publication year - 1993
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/j.1467-9450.1993.tb01123.x
Subject(s) - psychology , contrast (vision) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , test (biology) , psychic , medicine , alternative medicine , paleontology , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology , pathology
Defensive strategies were studied in 72 alcoholics participating in outpatient treatment by using, before the treatment started, the Meta‐Contrast Technique, MCT, a percept‐genetic method. Alcoholics had less often adaptive strategies than controls. A lack of adaptive defense strategies was related to a more impaired psychic status, more psychological benefits from drinking, and more psychiatric symptoms but not to severity of alcoholism or results of psychometric tests (intellectual level, field‐dependence, spatial performance). It does not seem inconceivable that the MCT could be used as a diagnostic tool in treatment planning.