Defensive Restructuring

Techniques:

• 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

Perls,F. (1969). In and out of the garbage pail. Lafayette, CA: Real People Press.

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).

Davenloo, H. 1980. Short-term dynamic pvchothernpy. New York: Jason Aronson.

Ferenczi, S. (1925) Psycho-analysis of sexual habits. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 6, pp. 372-404