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The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense

Paperback • 1995 • English

The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense

By Anna Freud

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When The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense was first published in German in 1936 it was at once recognized as a major contribution to psychoanalytic psychology, and its translation into English quickly followed. More than half a century later it enjoys the status of a classic and a founding text in ego psychology . Written by a pioneer of child analysis, and illustrated by fascinating clinical pictures drawn from childhood and adolescence, it discusses those adaptive measures by which painful an...Show more

Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
Social, group or collective psychology

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9781855750388

Publisher

Karnac Books

Published year

1995

Language

English

Original title

The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense

Format

Paperback

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