Freudian Defense Mechanisms and Empirical Findings in Modern Social Psychology: Reaction Formation, Projection, Displacement, Undoing, Isolation, Sublimation, and Denial

Journal of Personality

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1081-1124

  Baumeister, Roy F ^a   Dale, Karen ^a   Sommer, Kristin L ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032261094     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6494.00043     Document Type: Article

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