Perceptual defense mechanisms registered by the Meta-Contrast Technique in normal and pathologic children.

Abstract

Lindbom, K. Perceptual defense mechanisms registered by the meta‐con‐trast technique in normal and pathologic children. Scand. J. Psychol., 1968, 9, 109–116.—Patterns of perceptual defense mechanisms in lo‐year‐old children, on the whole, agree with adult patterns, as measured with the meta‐contrast technique (MCT). The technique clearly differentiates between a clinical and a normal group and, in the clinical group of children, also between psychiatric symptom classes.