Defensive Restructuring
From Psychotherapedia
Techniques:
- Identification of defenses: moderate anxiety
- Confrontation of defenses: high anxiety
- Intensification of defenses: moderate anxiety
- Affirmation and invitation to intimacy: low anxiety
- Demonstration of defenses: low to moderate anxiety
- Supporting defenses: low anxiety
- Defensive Restructuring
- Intensification of defense (Perls, 1969)
- Clarification of defense (Reich, 1933; Davanloo, 1980)
- Educating about defenses (McCullough, 1997)
- Disrupting defenses by blocking defensive operations (Ferenczi, 1925; Reich, 1933)
- Cataloging defenses (Davanloo, 1980; Magnavita, 1997)
- Psychic Integration (Kernberg, Davanloo others
- Stop, Listen, Look (Bateman & Fonagy, 2006)
- top, Rewind, Explore (Bateman & Fonagy, 2006)
- Labeling with qualification (Bateman & Fonagy, 2006)
- Making lemonade out of lemons (Linehan, 1993)
- Intensification of defense (Perls, 1969)
- Clarification of defense (Reich, 1933; Davanloo, 1980)
- Educating about defenses (McCullough, 1997)
- Disrupting defenses by blocking defensive operations (Ferenczi, 1925; Reich, 1933)
- Cataloging defenses (Davanloo, 1980; Magnavita, 1997)
- Challenge to Resistance (Davanloo, 1999a,b)
- Encouragement of neutral self observation (Messer and Warren, 1995)
- Affirm the client (Connors, Donovan, and DiClemente, 2001)
- Confrontation of Defenses (Magnavita, 2005)
- Behavior Analysis (Linehan, 1993)
- Supporting Defenses (Magnavita, 2005)
- Behavior Analysis (Linehan, 1993)
- Solution Analysis (Linehan, 1993)
- Dialectical assessment (Linehan, 1993)
