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Women Addiction (Alcohol and Opiates) and Defense Mechanism Style

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

D. Raketic ,
M. Kovacevic  and
T. Djuric
D. Raketic
Affiliation:
Department of Women Addiction, Belgrade, Serbia
M. Kovacevic
Affiliation:
Institute for Addiction, Belgrade, Serbia
T. Djuric
Affiliation:
Institute for Addiction, Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract

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Very few researches concerning women addictions are done up to day. This paper tries to define basic similarities and differences in defense mechanisms used by women alcohol and opiate addicts.

Method:

Sample of alcohol and opiate female addicts (30 patients in each group) plus control group (30 women) with no psychiatric diagnosis were questioned with Defense Style Questionnaire - DSQ 40 (Andrews, Singh, Bond, 1993).

Results:

There were found no statistically relevant differences between two experimental and one control group concerning mature defense mechanism use. Significant differences were found in neurotic and immature defense mechanism use: alcohol addicts use prevalently neurotic mechanisms and immature mechanisms prevail among opiate addicts.

Conclusions:

In our research mostly used neurotic defense mechanisms by alcohol addicts were: pseudoaltruism, idealization, and undoing. The mostly used immature defense mechanisms among opiate addicts were: phantasy, isolation, devaluation, denial and splitting.

Type
P01-63
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 24 , Issue S1: 17th EPA Congress - Lisbon, Portugal, January 2009, Abstract book , January 2009 , 24-E451
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2009
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