The Defense Mechanism and the Changes after the Treatment of Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To explore the defense mechanism of patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder(OCD)and to measure the changes in defense mechanisms after the treatment. Methods: Before and after 10- week psychotherapy , 26 patients with OCD were assessed with the Defense Style Questionnaire(DSQ)and Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale(Y-BOCS); DSQ were also used to test 26 normal subjects. Results: (1)The scores of immature mechanism factor (4.5?0.8)were significantly higher in OCD patients than in normal(3.0?0.5),the scores of mature mechanism factor(5.0?0.8)were significantly lower in OCD patients than in normal (5.7?0.7); (2)After 10- week psychotherapy the scores of immature mechanism factor(4.0?0.9)were significantly lower than before (4.5?1.0),the scores of mature mechanism factor(5.7?0.7)were significantly higher than before (5.0?0.9).Conclusion: OCD patients often use immature mechanism, but after psychotherapy, they can use more mature mechanism.