Process and personality : actualization of the personal world with process-oriented methods

310 Pages·2008·1.63 MB·English

by  Smith, Gudmund J. W., Carlsson, Ingegerd M.

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
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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
st
thing blue: microgenesis in the 21 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.