title: Defensive style in alcoholics and nonalcoholics.
abstract: After testing with the Controlled Repression-Sensitization Scale, 38 alcoholics were found to place greater reliance on sensitizing defenses than nonalcoholics. A test of the Defense Mechanism Inventory found no differences between alcoholics and controls.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011385:Projection; D011908:Rationalization; D012095:Repression-Sensitization