Defensive Restructuring

Techniques:

• Defensive Restructuring
  • Intensification of defense (Perls, 1969)^[1]
  • Clarification of defense (Reich, 1933^[2]; Davanloo, 1980^[3])
  • Educating about defenses (McCullough, 1997^[4])
  • Disrupting defenses by blocking defensive operations (Ferenczi, 1925^[5]; Reich, 1933^[6].
  • Cataloging defenses (Davanloo, 1980; Magnavita, 1997)
  • Psychic Integration (Kernberg, Davanloo others
  • Stop, Listen, Look (Bateman & Fonagy, 2006)
  • Stop, Rewind, Explore (Bateman & Fonagy, 2006)
  • Labeling with qualification (Bateman & Fonagy, 2006)
  • Making lemonade out of lemons (Linehan, 1993)
  • 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)

References

1. ↑ Perls,F. (1969). In and out of the garbage pail. Lafayette, CA: Real People Press.
2. ↑ Reich, Wilhelm. (1945). Character analysis: Principles and technique for psychoanalysts in practice and in training (Theodore P. Wolfe, Trans.). New York: Orgone Institute Press. (Original work published 1933).
3. ↑ Davenloo, H. (1980). Short-term dynamic pvchotherapy. New York: Jason Aronson.
4. ↑ McCullough Vaillant, L. (1997). Changing character: Short-term anxiety-regulating psychotherapy for restructuring defenses, affects, and attachment. New York: Basic Books.
5. ↑ Ferenczi, S. (1925) Psycho-analysis of sexual habits. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 6, pp. 372-404
6. ↑ Reich, Wilhelm. (1945). Character analysis: Principles and technique for psychoanalysts in practice and in training (Theodore P. Wolfe, Trans.). New York: Orgone Institute Press. (Original work published 1933)