ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly discusses the effects that interference with the work of contextualization, that is the activity of the core mental process, can have on the mind. Note that one of the major advantages of conceptualizing the mind in terms of the core mental process is that it offers a richer framework for understanding the possible ways in which things can go wrong with the mind than the traditional model. In the classical Freudian model one basically only had the strict focus of conscious versus unconscious to work with. In terms of the core mental process, the chapter shows a variety of different levels of functioning with many subtle aspects that can be interfered with, and so many different ways of conceptualizing subtly different types of defence. To speak metaphorically, the proponents of the 'all is defence' theory are like physiologists who insist that the process of elimination is nothing but a failure of the digestive process.
