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Das unbekannteWesen "Einsatzleiter" - Eine explorative qualitative Studie zur Erfassung unbewusster Ängste, Wünsche und Abwehrmechanismen

2013; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Volume: 59; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.13109/zptm.2013.59.2.198

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Thomas Beck, Martin Kumnig, Margit Breuss, Horst Mitmansgruber, Sandra Schusser, Pia Andreatta, M. Mäder, Gerhard Schüßler,

Psychiatric care and mental health services

The stress and coping strategies found among emergency relief personnel have been studied in detail but without considering their function in the team. However, specifically officers in charge have to be addressed and investigated separately. This study focuses on the unconscious desires, fears, and defense mechanisms present in order to improve our understanding of the stress experienced during operations.Four officers in charge were interviewed concerning their stressful experiences during operations. These interviews were then coded and analysed using the JAKOB Narrative Analysis ("Klinische Erzählanalyse JAKOB", Boothe et al. 2002).The recorded unconscious desires included solidarity, phallic integrity, generativity, unconscious fears destruction, loss of power/influence, and social hostility, and as defense strategies rationalism, repression/denial, and idealization.The analysis of the interviews shows a high reliability between the raters (0.74-0.79). The greatest burden for officers in charge is a loss of safety. Especially being confronted with strains in their own team leads to stress, which shows that the methods used for stress management following critical incidents is not sufficient.