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Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936) 1
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In the first definitive book on defence mechanisms, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), Anna Freud enumerated the ten defence mechanisms that appear in the works of her father, Sigmund Freud.
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