The Psychology of the Self and Defense Mechanisms

How are defense mechanisms formed that ensure the stability of the psyche even in the most adverse developmental situations?
What is the influence of adults on the growth and development of a small person?
Where lies the resource of the psyche that comes into contact with the external world?
This book belongs to the classical works that formed the basis of child psychoanalysis. Anna Freud developed ideas about psychological defense mechanisms that manifest when a child encounters the social world, and these postulates opened avenues 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 scholar who laid the foundations of child psychoanalysis, author of numerous articles and several books, including “Introduction to the Technique of Child Psychoanalysis” (1927), “Introduction to Psychoanalysis for Educators” (1930), “The Ego and Mechanisms of Defense” (1936), “Normality and Pathology in Childhood” (1965).