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Mariagrazia Di Giuseppe, Alessandro Gennaro, Vittorio Lingiardi & J. Christopher Perry. (2019) The Role of Defense Mechanisms in Emerging Personality Disorders in Clinical Adolescents. Psychiatry 82:2, pages 128-142.
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Phebe Cramer. (2017) Using the TAT to Assess the Relation Between Gender Identity and the Use of Defense Mechanisms. Journal of Personality Assessment 99:3, pages 265-274.
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Phebe Cramer. (2017) Defense Mechanism Card Pull in TAT Stories. Journal of Personality Assessment 99:1, pages 15-24.
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Phebe Cramer. (2015) Defense Mechanisms: 40 Years of Empirical Research. Journal of Personality Assessment 97:2, pages 114-122.
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Stephen Hibbard, John Porcerelli, Ray Kamoo, Mark Schwartz & Steven Abell. (2010) Defense and Object Relational Maturity on Thematic Apperception Test Scales Indicate Levels of Personality Organization. Journal of Personality Assessment 92:3, pages 241-253.
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Phebe Cramer. (2009) An Increase in Early Adolescent Undercontrol Is Associated With the Use of Denial. Journal of Personality Assessment 91:4, pages 331-339.
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John H. Porcerelli, Rosemary Cogan, Ray Kamoo & Susan Leitman. (2004) Defense Mechanisms and Self-Reported Violence Toward Partners and Strangers. Journal of Personality Assessment 82:3, pages 317-320.
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Stephen Hibbard. (2003) A Critique of Lilienfeld et al.'s (2000) "The Scientific Status of Projective Techniques". Journal of Personality Assessment 80:3, pages 260-271.
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John H. Porcerelli, Michael F. Abramsky, Stephen Hibbard & Ray Kamoo. (2001) Object Relations and Defense Mechanisms of a Psychopathic Serial Sexual Homicide Perpetrator: A TAT Analysis. Journal of Personality Assessment 77:1, pages 87-104.
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Stephen Hibbard, Paulette C. Y. Tang, Romney Latko, Ju Hui Park, Sidney Munn, Sabina Bolz & Addison Somerville. (2000) Differential Validity of the Defense Mechanism Manual for the TAT Between Asian Americans and Whites. Journal of Personality Assessment 75:3, pages 351-372.
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Phebe Cramer. (2018) Change in Children's Self Confidence and the Use of Defense Mechanisms. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 206:8, pages 593-597.
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Phebe Cramer. (2018) The Development of Defense Mechanisms During the Latency Period. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 206:4, pages 286-289.
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John H. Porcerelli, Phebe Cramer, Daniel J. Porcerelli & V. Elayne Arterbery. (2017) Defense Mechanisms and Utilization in Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiation Therapy. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 205:6, pages 466-470.
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Phebe Cramer. (2017) Identity change between late adolescence and adulthood. Personality and Individual Differences 104, pages 538-543.
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Phebe Cramer. (2015) Understanding Defense Mechanisms. Psychodynamic Psychiatry 43:4, pages 523-552.
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Phebe Cramer. (2015) IQ and Defense Mechanisms Assessed with the TAT. Rorschachiana 36:1, pages 40-57.
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Phebe Cramer. (2015) Change in Children's Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 203:3, pages 215-221.
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Phebe Cramer. (2012) Psychological maturity and change in adult defense mechanisms. Journal of Research in Personality 46:3, pages 306-316.
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Phebe Cramer. (2011) Young adult narcissism: A 20 year longitudinal study of the contribution of parenting styles, preschool precursors of narcissism, and denial. Journal of Research in Personality 45:1, pages 19-28.
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Eric Bui, Rachel Rodgers, Henri Chabrol, Philippe Birmes & Laurent Schmitt. (2011) Is Anakin Skywalker suffering from borderline personality disorder?. Psychiatry Research 185:1-2, pages 299.
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Golan Shahar, John H. Porcerelli, Ray Kamoo, C. Neill Epperson, Kathryn A. Czarkowski, Urania Magriples & Linda C. Mayes. (2010) Defensive Projection, Superimposed On Simplistic Object Relations, Erodes Patient-Provider Relationships in High-Risk Pregnancy: an Empirical Investigation. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 58:5, pages 953-974.
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Phebe Cramer & Francis D. Kelly. (2010) Attachment Style and Defense Mechanisms in Parents Who Abuse Their Children. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 198:9, pages 619-627.
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Phebe Cramer. 2010. The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology. The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology
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Phebe Cramer. (2009) The development of defense mechanisms from pre-adolescence to early adulthood: Do IQ and social class matter? A longitudinal study. Journal of Research in Personality 43:3, pages 464-471.
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Phebe Cramer & Constance J. Jones. (2008) Narcissism, identification, and longitudinal change in psychological health: Dynamic predictions. Journal of Research in Personality 42:5, pages 1148-1159.
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Phebe Cramer. (2008) Seven Pillars of Defense Mechanism Theory. Social and Personality Psychology Compass 2:5, pages 1963-1981.
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Phebe Cramer & Constance J. Jones. (2007) Defense mechanisms predict differential lifespan change in Self-control and Self-acceptance. Journal of Research in Personality 41:4, pages 841-855.
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Phebe Cramer. (2007) Longitudinal Study of Defense Mechanisms: Late Childhood to Late Adolescence. Journal of Personality 75:1, pages 1-24.
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John H. Porcerelli, Golan Shahar, Sidney J. Blatt, Richard Q. Ford, Jacqueline A. Mezza & Lisa M. Greenlee. (2006) Social cognition and object relations scale: Convergent validity and changes following intensive inpatient treatment. Personality and Individual Differences 41:3, pages 407-417.
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Myeong Kim, Rosemary Cogan, Stacy Carter & John H. Porcerelli. (2005) Defense mechanisms and self–reported violence toward strangers. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 69:4, pages 305-312.
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Phebe Cramer & Allison Tracy. (2005) The pathway from child personality to adult adjustment: The road is not straight. Journal of Research in Personality 39:3, pages 369-394.
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Richard J. Holigrocki & Robbi Hudson-Crain. (2004) Victim–victimizer relational dynamics as maintained by representational, defensive, and neurobiological functioning. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 68:3, pages 197-212.
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Phebe Cramer. (2004) Identity change in adulthood: The contribution of defense mechanisms and life experiences. Journal of Research in Personality 38:3, pages 280-316.
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Phebe Cramer & Francis D. Kelly. (2004) Defense Mechanisms in Adolescent Conduct Disorder and Adjustment Reaction. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 192:2, pages 139-145.
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Marlene J. Sandstrom & Phebe Cramer. (2003) Girls' Use of Defense Mechanisms Following Peer Rejection. Journal of Personality 71:4, pages 605-627.
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Marlene J. Sandstrom & Phebe Cramer. (2003) Defense Mechanisms and Psychological Adjustment in Childhood. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 191:8, pages 487-495.
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Phebe Cramer. (2003) Defense Mechanisms and Physiological Reactivity to Stress. Journal of Personality 71:2, pages 221-244.
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Phebe Cramer. (2003) Personality change in later adulthood is predicted by defense mechanism use in early adulthood. Journal of Research in Personality 37:1, pages 76-104.
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LEO WOLMER, NATHANIEL LAOR & DOMENIC V. CICCHETTI. (2001) Validation of the Comprehensive Assessment of Defense Style (CADS): Mothers' and Children's Responses to the Stresses of Missile Attacks. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 189:6, pages 369-376.
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