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Article: Protecting The Self.(Protecting the Self: Defense Mechanisms in Action)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Internet Bookwatch
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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Protecting The Self
Phebe Cramer
Guilford Publications
72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012
1593852983 $45.00 www.guilford.com 1-212-966-6708
Protecting The Self: Defense Mechanisms In Action by Phebe Cramer (clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Williams College) is an in-depth reference and resource about the mental defense mechanisms that ordinary people use upon themselves every day of their lives to deal with unpleasantness, criticism of the self, stress, and other psychologically jarring effects. When taken to extremes defense mechanisms can ...