Defense
Of psychiatry, process and psychoanalytic process. May also be referred to as defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense mechanism and defense reaction.
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires.
This concept's ID is @1~67461
Psychiatry
- compensation
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating...
- displacement
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original...
- conversion
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted...
- denial
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts.
- idealization
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into...
- intellectualization
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional...
- isolation
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is...
- projection
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed...
- rationalization
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining...
- reaction formation
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes...
- regression
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile...
- repression
(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas...