Psychology of the Self and Defense Mechanisms

How are protective mechanisms formed that ensure mental stability even in the most unfavorable developmental situations?
What is the influence of an adult on the growth and development of a small person?
What is the hidden resource of the psyche that comes into contact with the outside world?
This book belongs to the classic works that formed the basis of child psychoanalysis. Anna Freud developed ideas about the mechanisms of psychological defense that manifest themselves when a child encounters the social world; these postulates opened ways for psychologists to understand the process of personality formation in childhood and provide psychological assistance to the child.
A. Freud is the daughter and follower of Sigmund Freud, a scientist who laid the foundations of child psychoanalysis, the author of numerous articles and a number of books, including “Introduction to the technique of child psychoanalysis” (1927), “Introduction to psychoanalysis for teachers” (1930), “I and defense mechanisms" (1936), "Norm and pathology of childhood" (1965).