Citation

Ojehagen A, Smith GJ. Scand. J. Psychol. 1993; 34(3): 282-288.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Lund University Hospital, Sweden.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Scandinavian Psychological Associations, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8378757

Abstract

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.

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