List of Contributors Acknowledgements Series editor's foreword Introduction Anna Maria Rosso Part I A Journey through the Changing Landscape of Defenses in Psychoanalysis Chapter 1 A Journey through Freud's conceptualization of defense mechanisms Anna Maria Rosso Chapter 2 Forty years on: Anna Freud's re-examination of defense mechanisms in dialogue with Joseph Sandler Anna Maria Rosso Chapter 3 The Klein-Bion paradigm shift Anna Maria Rosso Chapter 4 The British Independents' twist Anna Maria Rosso Chapter 5 Insight into defenses from the North American psychoanalysis. Anna Maria Rosso Chapter 6 Does the concept of defense still hold water in psychoanalysis? Notes from the current psychoanalytic literature Anna Maria Rosso Part II The Heuristic utility of defense mechanisms in empirical research in psychoanalysis Chapter 7 Exploring the defenses in outcome research in psychoanalysis Anna Maria Rosso Chapter 8 Historical developments of assessing defenses on the Rorschach () Jason M. Smith & Carl B. Gacono Chapter 9 The Comprehensive Rorschach Defense System. A new coding system Carl B. Gacono & Anna Maria Rosso Chapter 10 The validation of the Comprehensive Rorschach Defense Scale Anna Maria Rosso & Andrea Camoirano Chapter 11 Exploring psychic functioning through the Comprehensive Rorschach Defense Scale: A case study Anna Maria Rosso References.