title: Two systems and defenses.
abstract: The authors suggest that Freud's concept of defense differentiated psychoanalysis from other medical and psychological theories of personality development and functioning then and now. Reclaiming the concept's centrality and linking it with interdisciplinary research findings, they illustrate their extension of defense into a two-system model of self-protection and self-regulation with a clinical example. The authors suggest that the two-system model allows for the reintegration of defense into a multidimensional psychoanalytic theory and multimodal therapeutic technique.
authors: International Psychoanalytic Association. jackjnovick@gmail.com
authors: Jack
authors: J
authors: Novick
authors: Kerry Kelly
authors: KK
authors: Novick
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D005260:Female; D005619:Freudian Theory / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D055815:Young Adult