Ego Psychology: Anna Freud Pt. 4-2

Blog: https://psychreviews.org/ego-psychology-anna-freud-pt-4/

Defenses drain energy, and successful therapy frees the patient of the need for defensiveness.

Intro: 0:00
Transference: 0:24
Defenses: 7:45
Superego Anxiety: 20:30
Denial: 24:15
Identification with an aggressor: 38:01

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Resources:

The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence - Anna Freud: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781855750388/

Psychoanalysis and Discourse - Patrick Mahoney: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780422617208/

Essential Papers on Dreams - Melvin R. Lansky: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780814750629/

The Language of Psychoanalysis by Jean Laplanche, Jean-Bertrand Pontalis: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780367328139/

Alperin, R. M. (2004). Toward an Integrated Understanding of Dreams. Clinical Social Work Journal, 32(4), 451–469.