Download or read book The Processes of Defense written by Joseph Fernando and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joseph Fernando provides the first in-depth exploration and up-to-date revision of the psychoanalytic theory of defenses since Anna Freud's 1936 classic, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense. The workings of three basic forms of defense - repression, denial, and post-traumatic defenses - are clearly described and illustrated with examples from Dr. Fernando's clinical practice, and new concepts including the zero process, contrast defenses, and compound defenses are introduced." --Book Jacket.