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KMID : 0351619760170010100
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Kyungpook Medical Journal
1976 Volume.17 No. 1 p.100 ~ p.104
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Adaptive Processes of Long-term Prisoners
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Abstract
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Fifteen long-term prisoners who had been confined in T prison for three to eighteen years were interviewed by the present author. The interview setting wa;~ an unexpected and involuntary one to them, and the frequency of sessions was one to eight hours for each of them.
The prisoner´s initial reactions to the interview were unexceptionally one of "emotional shock", which was regularly followed by durable instability and obsessive rumination about contents of the interview itself. Snon they developed ambivalent transference to the interviewer.
They showed three major attitudinal defences; antagonistic, submissive and apathetic types. ~1ost frequent symptoms of prisoners were cardiovascular and gastrointestinal ones as well as mental s,ymptcros such as feeling of impotence, boredom and vague anxiety.
As to the dream content of the prisoners, catastrophic dreams, regressive ones which clearly represent reunion with old family members, and wish-fulfilling ones escaping the situation of confinement were most prominent.
The present author was much impressed by their "conscious effort" io endure the difficulties of prison life, i. e. , t~ control inner and cuter stimuli impinged upon them.
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