defence mechanism
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1. (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires (noun.process)
| hypernym | : | psychoanalytic process, |
| definition | : | a process that is assumed to occur in psychoanalytic theory (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | compensation, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | conversion, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | denial, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | displacement, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | idealisation, idealization, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | isolation, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | projection, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | rationalisation, rationalization, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | reaction formation, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | regression, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state (noun.process) |
| hyponym | : | repression, |
| definition | : | (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious (noun.process) |
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