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Defense Mechanisms: Focus Questions
Defense Mechanisms: Focus Questions
Defense Mechanisms
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Focus Questions
What are defense mechanisms?
Defense mechanisms are the unconscious psychological processes that people develop to relieve anxiety.
effects.
person or group)
feelings)
The person attributes to others the
another)
The person attempts to dispel anxiety
reality.
The person tries to escape the
patterns of behavior)
Introjection Identifying with some idea or object so
person.
Intellectualization is a defense
object