Coping and Defense Mechanisms: What's the Difference?

Journal of Personality

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 919-946

  Cramer, Phebe ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0347571151     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6494.00037     Document Type: Article

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