I General Issues.- 1. A Critical Perspective on Defense Mechanisms.- 2. Defense Mechanisms in the Clinic and in the Laboratory: An Attempt at Bridging the Gap.- 3. What Is a Mechanism of Defense?.- 4. Percept-Genesis and the Study of Defensive Processes.- II Methodological Considerations.- 5. The Measurement of Defense Mechanisms by Self-Report Questionnaires.- 6. The Assessment of Primitive Defense Mechanisms by Projective Techniques.- 7. Percept-Genetic Methodology.- 8. The Study of Defenses in Psychotherapy Using the Defense Mechanism Rating Scales (DMRS).- III Personality and Applied Psychology.- 9. Causal Attributions of Disease as Related to Dynamic Personality Variables.- 10. Exploration of the Relationship Between Anxiety and Defense: Semantic Differential Ratings of Defense Mechanism Test Stimuli.- 11. The Cognitive Determinants of Defense Mechanisms.- 12. Development of the Repression-Sensitization Construct: With Special Reference to the Discrepancy Between Subjective and Physiological Stress Reactions.- 13. Augmenting/Reducing: A Link Between Perceptual and Emotional Aspects of Psychophysiological Individuality.- 14. A Psychodynamic Activation Study of Female Oedipal Fantasies Using Subliminal and Percept-Genetic Techniques.- 15. Aspects of the Construct Validity of the Defense Mechanism Test.- 16. Adaptation to Boredom and Stress: The Effects of Defense Mechanisms and Concept Formation on Attentional Performance in Situations with Inadequate Stimulation.- IV Clinical Assessment and Psychotherapeutic Interventions.- 17. The Structure and Process of Defense in Diagnosis of Personality and in Psychoanalytic Treatment.- 18. The Measurement of Ego Defenses in Clinical Research.- 19. Validation of the German Version of Bond’s Questionnaire of Defensive Styles.-20. Regulative Styles and Defenses: Some Relationships Between the Serial Color-Word Test and the Defense Mechanism Test.- 21. Change in Defense Mechanisms Following Intensive Treatment, As Related to Personality Organization and Gender.- 22. Defense Mechanisms in Interaction with Intellectual Performance in Depressive Inpatients.- 23. Defense Mechanisms and Hope as Protective Factors in Physical and Mental Disorders.- 24. Defense Mechanisms in Patients with Bone Marrow Transplantation: A Retrospective Study.- V Psychosomatics.- 25. Attitudes Toward Illness and Health and Defense Mechanisms in Psychosomatic Patients.- 26. Anorexics and Bulimics Compared Vis-à-Vis Defense, Proximity, and Separation.- 27. Defense Styles in Eating Disorders.- 28. Defense Mechanisms and Defense Organizations: Their Role in the Adaptation to the Acute Stage of Crohn’s Disease.