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Development of the Repression-Sensitization Construct: With Special Reference to the Discrepancy Between Subjective and Physiological Stress Reactions

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The Concept of Defense Mechanisms in Contemporary Psychology

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Research on the construct “repression-sensitization” has developed from a fusion of two traditions, one “perception oriented” and the other “clinical” (cf. Erdelyi, 1990; Krohne, in press). The perception-oriented line of development has its origins in Brunswik’s functionalistic interpretations of behavior (Brunswik, 1947) and has served as the basis for a person-oriented approach in perception research (cf. Bruner, 1951; Bruner & Postman, 1947; Frenkel-Brunswik, 1949; Klein & Schlesinger, 1949). The “clinical” approach is represented by psychoanalytical approaches to “anxiety defense mechanisms” (Freud, 1936).

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Kohlmann, CW. (1993). Development of the Repression-Sensitization Construct: With Special Reference to the Discrepancy Between Subjective and Physiological Stress Reactions. In: Hentschel, U., Smith, G.J.W., Ehlers, W., Draguns, J.G. (eds) The Concept of Defense Mechanisms in Contemporary Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8303-1_12

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