The Writings of Anna Freud, Volume II 1936: the Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense

New York: International Universities Press, 1966. "Revised Edition". Small quarto in dark blue-grey cloth; 191p., bibliographical references. Near fine. Tight and clean with very gently edge-wear to boards. Hardcover.

Contents: Part I: Theory of the mechanisms of defense -- The ego as the seat of observation -- The application of analytic technique to the study of the psychic institutions -- The ego's defense of operations considered as an object of analysis -- The mechanims of defense -- Orientation of the process of defense according to the source of anxiety and danger -- Part II: Examples of the avoidance of objective unpleasure and objective danger preliminary stages of defense -- Denial in fantasy -- Denial in word and act -- Restriction of the ego -- Part III: Examples of types of defense -- Identification with the aggressor -- A form of altruism -- Part IV: Defense motivated by fear of the strength of the instincts illustrated by the phenomena of puberty -- The ego and the ID at puberty -- Instinctual anxiety during puberty -- Conclusion

volumes <1-5, 7-8>; 23 cm. Vol. 2 has copyright date 1966. "The material on which this book is based was first presented at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1935; it was published in German in 1936, and translated into English in 1937. Since that time the book has been reprinted, unchanged, eighteen times. After tweny years of continuous reprinting, it was decided to bring out a new edition of this book as part of the Writings of Anna Freud."/ Includes

Child analysis. Psychoanalysis. Enfants -- Psychologie. Enfants -- Psychanalyse. Psychanalyse. psychoanalysis. Child analysis. Child psychology. Psychoanalysis. Freud, Anna, 1895-1982.