Gudmund J. W. Smith – Ingegerd M. Carlsson (Eds.) Process and Personality Actualization of the Personal World With Process-Oriented Methods P R O C E S S T H O U G H T Edited by Nicholas Rescher • Johanna Seibt • Michel Weber Advisory Board Mark Bickhard • Jaime Nubiola • Roberto Poli Volume 17 Gudmund J. W. Smith Ingegerd M. Carlsson (Editors) Process and Personality Actualization of the Personal World With Process-Oriented Methods ontos verlag Frankfurt I Paris I Ebikon I Lancaster I New Brunswick Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. North and South America by Transaction Books Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ 08854-8042 [email protected] United Kingdom, Eire, Iceland, Turkey, Malta, Portugal by Gazelle Books Services Limited White Cross Mills Hightown LANCASTER, LA1 4XS [email protected] Livraison pour la France et la Belgique: Librairie Philosophique J.Vrin 6, place de la Sorbonne ; F-75005 PARIS Tel. +33 (0)1 43 54 03 47 ; Fax +33 (0)1 43 54 48 18 www.vrin.fr 2008 ontos verlag P.O. Box 15 41, D-63133 Heusenstamm www.ontosverlag.com ISBN 13: 978-3-938793-89-3 2008 No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in retrieval systems or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use of the purchaser of the work Printed on acid-free paper ISO-Norm 970-6 FSC-certified (Forest Stewardship Council) This hardcover binding meets the International Library standard Printed in Germany by buch bücher dd ag Published in remembrance of Ulf Kragh CONTENTS Introduction 1 Gudmund Smith and Ingegerd Carlsson 1. What is perceptgenesis really about? 7 Gudmund Smith 2. Perceptgenesis: its origins, accomplishments and propects 23 Juris Draguns 3. A mosaic of seven perceptgenetic themes 51 Ulf Kragh 4. A note on the concept of stimulus in perceptgenetic theory 65 Anders Zachrisson 5. Defense mechanisms in psychosomatic groups: a heuristic 77 model Mikael Henningsson 6. Defense mechanisms and posttraumatic symptoms among 91 male Bosnian and Croatian refugees in psychiatric treat- ment Gunilla Kivling Bodén and Elisabet Sundbom 7. Influence of gender and age in the defense mechanism test 113 among adolescents and adults Per Fransson and Elisabet Sundbom 8. Mature and immature defenses. A study of repressors and 127 trait anxiety groups Ingegerd Carlsson and Fredrik Neuman 9. Heart rate variability during the meta-contrast technique 143 Peter Jönsson 10. Perceptgenetic techniques in the study of cognitive styles 167 and defense mechanisms: from assessment toward psycho- therapy Uwe Hentschel and Juris Draguns 11. Which type of norm for S-CWT research? 191 Alex Rubino, Federica Tozzi & Alberto Siracusano 12. Pilots and ground officers investigated by process tests of 201 creativity, extraversion, and stress control Ingegerd Carlsson, Gunilla Amnér & Gudmund Smith 13. Vision forming and brain storming: different aspects of 221 creativity captured by a perceptgenetic measurement and other measurements of creativity Eva Hoff and Ingegerd Carlsson 14. Something old, something new, something borrowed, some- 241 thing blue: microgenesis in the 21st century Joseph Glicksohn 15. Actualization and causality 263 Jason Brown Name Index 289 Subject Index 296 Contributors 299 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Among all people who inspired and helped organize the meeting in Del- phi, the breeding ground of this book, we particularly want to thank Dr. Dimitri Kyriazis, himself an expert in the application of the DMT.