Ego and protection mechanisms

"Ego and the mechanisms of protection" are the classical work of Anna Freud, which became a milestone not only in the development of child psychoanalysis, but also in child psychology as a whole, and also had a significant impact on the development of a new psychological direction - ego -psychology.
Faced in her practical activity with the need to revise the orthodox psychoanalytic theory, Anna Freud put the emphasis from studying the functioning of the unconscious to study the ego, which, as she noted in this book, has always been the main goal of the therapeutic process, while the study of the ID was only A means to achieve this goal.
The work of Anna Freud "Ego and the mechanisms of protection", which opened a new path to understanding the process of personality formation in childhood, providing psychological assistance to the child and overcoming conflicts of the children"s soul, brought it world fame, became a significant contribution to the development of psychology and the starting point For many further research in this area