ABSTRACT
There is no concept which has shown such a fundamental bearing on all problems connected with personality as compensation. Only recently has the mechanism of compensation been studied empirically, that is to say, from actual observations in specific cases ; and much of the attention which this mechanism has attracted is due to the rise of psychoanalysis. In fact, if we were to look for a bridge which connects the two related fields, psychoanalysis and orthodox psychiatry, we should very likely find it in the compensatory process.
