Psychological Defense Mechanisms

This book aims to provide a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of psychological defense mechanisms. Intended for psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and psychology students, its goal is to fill a gap in the existing literature on this essential but often neglected subject. The author first places defense mechanisms in their historical and theoretical context. He traces the evolution of psychoanalytic conceptualizations, the contributions of cognitive psychology research, and the growing interest of the scientific community in this issue. In the second part, the book reviews major defense mechanisms. Each is the subject of a detailed chapter that synthesizes its characteristics, role, clinical manifestations, and psychopathological implications. Accessible to non-specialists but sufficiently in-depth for practitioners, this book fills an editorial gap and provides an up-to-date overview of knowledge on this essential topic in psychology.