Defence Mechanisms in Addicts

Abstract

U radu je istraživana povezanost obrambenih mehanizama i drugih parametara ovisnosti (dob, spol, bračni i radni status, vrsta ovisnosti, te duljina i težina ovisnosti). Rezultati istraživanja su pokazali da su dominantni obrambeni mehanizmi kod ovisnika: apatično povlačenje, devaluacija, negacija, potiskivanje, projekcija, projektivna identifikacija i racionalizacija. Rezultati su također pokazali da postoje razlike u svim navedenim ispitivanim elementima. Kod žena se ovisnost razvija znatno rjeđe nego kod muškaraca, ali kada se ovisnost razvije tada ima teži oblik (češće prisutni nezreli obrambeni mehanizmi). Ovisnost o alkoholu i kockanju je više povezana s potiskivanjem, racionalizacijom, negacijom i projekcijom, a ovisnost o drogama i internetu s apatičnim povlačenjem, devaluacijom i projektivnom identifikacijom. Daljnja istraživanja obrambenih mehanizama ovisnika značajno će doprinijeti daljnjem napretku u dijagnostičkim i terapijskim postupcima. / This paper investigates the correlation between defence mechanisms and other parameters of addiction (age, gender, marital and work status, type of addiction, and length and severity of addiction). Research findings have shown thatdominant defence mechanisms in addicts are apathetic withdrawal, devaluation, denial, repression, projection, project identification and rationalization. These results also showed that there are differences in all of the above-mentioned parameters. In women, addiction develops considerably less often than in men, but when addiction develops it has a heavier form (more often, immature defence mechanisms are present). Alcohol and gambling addictions are more associated with repression, rationalization, denial and projection, and addiction to drugs and the internet with apathetic withdrawal, devaluation and projective identification. Further research on defence mechanisms in addicts will significantly contribute to further progress in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

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