Repression was considered by Freud as a key mechanism for everyone, especially for normals and neurotics. His Repression paper, written in 1915, was psychoanalytically definitive. Of course, much had been written before and even more was written after. Anna Freud's book The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence included repression and was published by…

Rationalization was studied by Sigmund Freud and was specifically labeled by Ernest Jones. Rationalization ought to be differentiated from rational, rationality, logical analysis, etc. On the one hand, rationalization is considered a defense mechanism, on the other hand, rationality is not. Haan has done much work with self-report inventories and…

This paper briefly introduces outlines of psychoanalysis (Freud), individual psychology (Adler), and analytical psychology (Jung). Freud focused on problems of adults as they related to childhood; Adler on problems of adults as they related to adulthood; and Jung on problems of adults as they related to middle and later years. Jungian analytical…