![]() | Psychological Adaptive Mechanisms : Ego Defense Recognition in Practice and Research Dr. Beresford is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Trained in psychiatry at The Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School, he has focused his clinical and scientific career on the psychiatric problems that medical and surgical patients encounter, whether in adjusting to illness or in returning to normal brain functioning. His interest in psychological adaptive mechanisms comes from applying scientific methods to clinically relevant human behavior and brain function. He has developed both clinical and teaching methods to understand and use adaptive mechanism recognition with greater, and more practical, precision.Dr. Beresford is internationally known for his work in alcoholism and liver transplantation where he developed a clinical method for evaluating alcohol dependent patients for this life saving procedure. His current projects include studies of psychological adaptive mechanisms in the differential diagnosis and treatment of medical/psychiatric disorders that include cancer. He also studies biological mechanisms that promote alcohol abstinence, and medicinal treatment of traumatic brain injury. In addition to his medical interests, Dr. Beresford earned an M.A. degree in English literature from Boston College and won a Wallace Stegner Fellowship In Creative Writing (poetry) at Stanford University. Most recently, he held a Fellowship from the Council of Deans of the American Association of Medical Colleges |
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