Ego mechanisms of defense : a guide for clinicans and researchers

Outgrowth from the 1985 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association held in Dallas.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The historical origins of Sigmund Freud's concept of the mechanisms of defense ; The place of defense mechanisms in diagnostic formulation and in modern clinical practice ; The need for a uniform nomenclature for defenses ; The clinical management of immature defenses in the treatment of individuals with personality disorders ; The struggle for empirical assessment of defenses / George E. Vaillant -- Empirical evidence that defensive styles are independent of environmental influence / George E. Vaillant, Caroline O. Vaillant
An empirical study of defensive styles: the defense style questionnaire / Michael Bond -- A cross-validation of two methods of investigating defenses / George E. Vaillant, Caroline O. Vaillant -- Toward reliability in identifying ego defenses: clinical techniques / Leigh McCullough -- An approach to evaluating adolescent ego defense mechanisms using clinical interviews / Alan M. Jacobson ... [et al.] -- What do cross-sectional measures of defense mechanisms predict? / J. Christopher Perry, Steven Cooper -- A Q-sort approach to identifying defenses / Diane Roston, Kimberly A. Lee, George E. Vaillant.

Not since Anna Freud's 1937 book, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, has any one volume explored this topic as fully as Ego Mechanisms of Defense by George E. Vaillant. By summarizing the latest empirical studies, proposing a universal language of defense mechanisms, and demonstrating how various assessment methods can be used in diagnosis, case formulation, and treatment, Dr. Vaillant and an interdisciplinary group of contributors provide the groundwork for clinical practice as well as future research in the field.