The Ego And The Mechanisms Of Defence

By Anna Freud.

Translation by Cecil Baines.

From the cover: The author is the daughter of Professor Sigmund Freud, and in this book she shows expository powers which remind the reader of her famous father. She gives a careful account of that aspect of psychology which has been made a special study in Viennese psycho-analytical circles. It is concerned par ticularly with the non-sexual components of the mind. The ego, in its attempt to deal with the repressed impulses, has recourse to a great variety of defence mechanisms, as they are called, with which to protect itself. The author does not attempt a systematic classification of these defences, but she gives an extremely clear description of their nature and of the complicated ways in which they interact. The book is essentially a clinical one, and the relation of the theoretical knowledge to practical analytic work is constantly kept ni mind. The volume is of very great importance to all who are interested in the progress of psycho-analysis.

London. The Hogarth Press. And The Institute Of Psychoanalysis. 1961. 198p. CONTAINS MARK-UP