Definition that contains defense mechanism
- compensation (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
- denial (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
- 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
- repression (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
- conversion (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
- displacement (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
- regression (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
- 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
- intellectualization (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict