Defence mechanisms and suggestibility

✍ Scribed by Calvin Kai-Ching Yu

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 113 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-5290
• DOI: 10.1002/ch.321

✦ Synopsis

This study was geared towards testing the relationship between responsiveness to hypnotic suggestions and the psychodynamic mechanisms of defence. Ninety Chinese participants were invited to attend a suggestibility test session and completed a measure of defence style. Most of the defence scales did not vary signifi cantly with the suggestibility. The only type of defence which showed a signifi cant association with the suggestibility was idealization. The implications of the fi ndings were discussed in the psychodynamic and Chinese context.