defense reaction
Noun
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(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires (synset 113480525)
referred to in: psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology - the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disordersis a type of:
- process, unconscious process - a mental process that you are not directly aware of
- psychoanalytic process - a process that is assumed to occur in psychoanalytic theory
subtypes:- compensation - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
- conversion - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
- denial - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
- displacement - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
- idealisation, idealization - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
- intellectualisation, intellectualization - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
- isolation - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
- projection - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
- rationalisation, rationalization - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
- reaction formation - (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
- regression - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
- repression - (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
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