Mesh term Defense Mechanisms
Browse to parent terms:Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Description
Unconscious process used by an individual or a group of individuals in order to cope with impulses, feelings or ideas which are not acceptable at their conscious level; various types include reaction formation, projection and self reversal.Browse to child terms:
Acting Out
Denial (Psychology)
Displacement (Psychology)
Fantasy
Helplessness, Learned
Identification (Psychology)
Perceptual Defense
Procrastination
Projection
Rationalization
Regression (Psychology)
Repression, Psychology
Sublimation, Psychological
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