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Title: | The mechanisms of defense and dreaming |
Authors: | Prof. YU Kai Ching, Calvin |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
Source: | Dreaming, Mar 2011. Vol. 21(1), p. 51-69. |
Journal: | Dreaming |
Abstract: | This study examined the degree to which the phenomenological experience of dream intensity and its components are correlated with repression, splitting, and other defense mechanisms. The Dream Intensity Scale, Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, Splitting Scale, Defense Style Questionnaire-40, and other related measures were administered to 583 subjects. It is demonstrated that repression as a personality trait is inversely and moderately related to the quantitative aspect of dream intensity (i.e., frequencies of dream awareness, nightmares, and multiple dreams in a single night) but does not influence qualitative sensory experiences in dreams (e.g., hearing sounds in dreams). Moreover, the present findings indicate that the more repressed people are, the less likely they are to report splitting and immature defenses, and the less frequently they experience dreams, with the effect of repression on defenses being greater than that on dream intensity. Accordingly, if both dreams and defense mechanisms are the critical materials to work through in a treatment, then starting with the former may be conducive to the therapeutic progress by provoking less resistance from the client. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) |
Type: | Peer Reviewed Journal Article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/4792 |
ISSN: | 1053-0797 |
DOI: | 10.1037/a0022867 |
Appears in Collections: | Counselling and Psychology - Publication |
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