Am J Psychiatry 1989; 146:1500-1502
Copyright © 1989 by American Psychiatric Association
Defense styles associated with specific anxiety disorders
C Pollock and G Andrews
Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders, University of New South Wales at St. Vincent's Hospital, Australia.
The Defense Style Questionnaire was administered to control subjects from
the general population (N = 204) and to patients with DSM-III panic
disorder (N = 39), agoraphobia (N = 39), social phobia (N = 23), or
obsessive-compulsive disorder (N = 18). A specific pattern of defenses was
associated with each anxiety disorder.
