num_pages: 340
description: Explores the nature and manifestations of defense mechanisms--repression, displacement, denial, etc. Traces ego defense theory and research from Freud's initial conceptualization through recent work in object-relations theory and other psychoanalytically-oriented approaches. Renowned contributors provide the rationale for their measurement techniques, describe them in detail, offer reliability and validity data along with illustrations of usefulness.
language: English
title: Ego Defenses: Theory and Measurement (Einstein Psychiatry Publication, No. 10
titlecomplete: Ego Defenses: Theory and Measurement (Einstein Psychiatry Publication, No. 10
ratings_count: 1
publisher: John Wiley & Sons