Defense and its assessment: The lerner defense scale

Scoring the Rorschach: Seven Validated Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 202-229

  Lerner, Paul M ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410612526     Document Type: Chapter

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