In defence of the criticism of the Defence Mechanism Test (DMT): A reply to Kragh (1998)

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-87

  Ekehammar, Bo ^b   Zuber, Irena ^a  

^a Swed Inst of Cogn Psychotherapy   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Defence mechanisms; DMT; Projective tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141887680     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9450.00101     Document Type: Article

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