In psychoanalytic theory, a defence mechanism is an unconscious psychological operation that functions to protect a person from anxiety-producing thoughts...
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Anti-predator adaptation (redirect from Defence mechanism (biology))
back, or escaping when caught. The first line of defence consists in avoiding detection, through mechanisms such as camouflage, masquerade, apostatic selection...
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drug exerts its biological effects Defence mechanism, unconscious mechanisms aimed at reducing anxiety Reaction mechanism, the sequence of reactions by which...
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Virus (section Host defence mechanisms)
degrading the viral mRNA. Rotaviruses have evolved to avoid this defence mechanism by not uncoating fully inside the cell, and releasing newly produced...
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Anna Freud (redirect from The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence)
major work in 1936, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence, a classic monograph on ego psychology and defense mechanisms, Anna Freud drew on her own clinical...
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Millipede (section Defence mechanisms)
millipedes are covered with tufts of detachable bristles. Its primary defence mechanism is to curl into a tight coil, thereby protecting its legs and other...
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Genetics of migraine (section Defence mechanism)
Five possible evolutionary explanations exist: i) migraine as a defence mechanism, ii) migraine as a result of conflicts with other organisms, iii)...
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Psychological projection (category Defence mechanisms)
Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" content mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other. It forms the basis...
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Air Defence ECM Battalion, an Air Defence Mechanism Battalion, an Air Defence Workshop Battalion, and Air Defence Battalions which are also known as...
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Splitting (psychology) (category Defence mechanisms)
and the post-Kleinians, on the other hand, splitting is an 'active' defence mechanism". As a result, by the close of the century "four kinds of splitting...
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