According to this theory, healthy people use different defence mechanisms throughout life. A defence mechanism can become pathological when its persistent use...

back, or escaping when caught. The first line of defence consists in avoiding detection, through mechanisms such as camouflage, masquerade, apostatic selection...

display, but the hypothesis has rarely if ever been tested. The mechanism of defence relies on the memory of the would-be predator; a bird that has once...

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...

degrading the viral mRNA. Rotaviruses have evolved to avoid this defence mechanism by not uncoating fully inside the cell, and releasing newly produced...

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...

Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" content mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other. It forms the basis...

environment. The system automates the entire air defence mechanism enhancing the response mechanism to any threats. It is anticipated that this integration...

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Isolation (German: Isolierung) is a defence mechanism in psychoanalytic theory, first proposed by Sigmund Freud. While related to repression, the concept...

Five possible evolutionary explanations exist: i) migraine as a defence mechanism, ii) migraine as a result of conflicts with other organisms, iii)...

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...

"[specify] George Eman Vaillant in his study of defence mechanisms took as a central example of "an immature defence ... fantasy — living in a 'Walter Mitty'...

identification with it. Freud also considered social narcissism as a defence mechanism, apparent when communal identifications produce irrational panics...

In psychoanalytic theory, regression is a defense mechanism involving the reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of psychosexual development, as a reaction...

reaction – Behavioral disorder due to war trauma Defence mechanism – Unconscious psychological mechanism Hypervigilance – Nervous system condition James...

this is a source of some neurological diseases in humans. Another defence mechanism against herbivores is the accumulation of toxins in seeds and vegetative...

In her classic book The Ego and the Mechanism of Defence, Anna Freud introduced "two original defence mechanisms...both of which have become classics...

diagnostic tools. Its cause is believed to be related to neurobiological mechanisms, trauma, anxiety, and psychoactive drugs. Research has further related...

spine that lies in a groove below the eye, which may be extended as a defence mechanism. The spine may cause a painful wound, but is not venomous. It also...

Lundqvist. (2010). "How does music evoke emotions? Exploring the underlying mechanisms." In P.N. Juslin & J. Sloboda (Eds.), Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory...

nudibranchs have lost their shells, while developing alternative defence mechanisms. Some species evolved an external anatomy with textures and colours...

branches and leaves. If damaged, trunks employ a complex and slow defence mechanism, which starts by creating a barrier to the incoming disease. Eventually...

Association. Retrieved 19 April 2024. Moray, Neville (1961). "Perceptual Defence and Filter Theory". Nature. 191 (940): 940. Bibcode:1961Natur.191..940M...

memories, either consciously or unconsciously. It is an example of a defence mechanism, since these are unconscious or conscious coping techniques used to...

displacement (German: Verschiebung, lit. 'shift, move') is an unconscious defence mechanism whereby the mind substitutes either a new aim or a new object for...

for certain advanced degrees Defence mechanisms, unconscious psychological mechanisms that reduce anxiety "The Defence", a song by Black Midi from Hellfire...

Escapism is mental diversion from unpleasant aspects of daily life, typically through activities involving imagination or entertainment. Escapism also...

the outside world. It is generally regarded as an unconscious defense mechanism, thus the person is unaware they are doing it. Externalization takes on...

In psychology, compensation is a strategy whereby one covers up, consciously or unconsciously, weaknesses, frustrations, desires, or feelings of inadequacy...