Ojehagen A, Smith G J
Department of Psychiatry, Lund University Hospital, Sweden.
Scand J Psychol. 1993 Sep;34(3):282-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1993.tb01123.x.
Defensive strategies were studied in 72 alcoholics participating in outpatient treatment by using, before the treatment started, the Meta-Contrast Technique, MCT, a percept-genetic method. Alcoholics had less often adaptive strategies than controls. A lack of adaptive defense strategies was related to a more impaired psychic status, more psychological benefits from drinking, and more psychiatric symptoms but not to severity of alcoholism or results of psychometric tests (intellectual level, field-dependence, spatial performance). It does not seem inconceivable that the MCT could be used as a diagnostic tool in treatment planning.
