title: Personality, personality disorders, and defense mechanisms.
abstract: The prototype approach was used to assess the presence of personality features associated with borderline, narcissistic, histrionic, and psychopathic personality syndromes in a sample of 91 young adults from the Block and Block (1980) longitudinal study. These personality prototypes were found to be related to the use of denial and projection, and especially to the immature manifestations of those defenses, in ways consistent with theory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA. phebe.cramer@williams.edu
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cramer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D011385:Projection; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012044:Regression Analysis