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The Defenses in Psychoanalysis: Theoretical Concepts to Empirical Research

Author(s) : Anna Maria Rosso

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I - A Journey through the Changing Landscape of Defenses in Psychoanalysis
1. A Journey through Freud’s conceptualization of defense mechanisms
2. Forty years on: Anna Freud's re-examination of defense mechanisms in dialogue with Joseph Sandler
3. The Klein-Bion paradigm shift
4. The British Independents’ twist
5. Insight into defenses from the North American psychoanalysis.
6. Does the concept of defense still hold water in psychoanalysis? Notes from the current psychoanalytic literature

Part II - The Heuristic utility of defense mechanisms in empirical research in psychoanalysis
7. Exploring the defenses in outcome research in psychoanalysis
8. Historical developments of assessing defenses on the Rorschach ()
9. The Comprehensive Rorschach Defense System. A new coding system
10. The validation of the Comprehensive Rorschach Defense Scale
11. Exploring psychic functioning through the Comprehensive Rorschach Defense Scale: A case study

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