According to this theory, healthy people use different defence mechanisms throughout life. A defence mechanism can become pathological when its persistent use...
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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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Aposematism (redirect from Aposematic Mechanism)
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...
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Akashteer (category Army air defence)
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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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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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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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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Linkage (mechanical) Mechanism of action, the means by which a drug exerts its biological effects Defence mechanism, unconscious mechanisms aimed at reducing...
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Regression (psychology) (category Defence mechanisms)
In psychoanalytic theory, regression is a defense mechanism involving the reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of psychosexual development, as a reaction...
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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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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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Fantasy (psychology) (category Defence mechanisms)
"[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'...
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Isolation (psychology) (category Defence mechanisms)
Isolation (German: Isolierung) is a defence mechanism in psychoanalytic theory, first proposed by Sigmund Freud. While related to repression, the concept...
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Perceptual defense (redirect from Perceptual defence)
Association. Retrieved 19 April 2024. Moray, Neville (1961). "Perceptual Defence and Filter Theory". Nature. 191 (940): 940. Bibcode:1961Natur.191..940M...
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this is a source of some neurological diseases in humans. Another defence mechanism against herbivores is the accumulation of toxins in seeds and vegetative...
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reaction – Behavioral disorder due to war trauma Defence mechanism – Unconscious psychological mechanism Hypervigilance – Nervous system condition James...
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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...
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Dissociation (psychology) (category Defence mechanisms)
diagnostic tools. Its cause is believed to be related to neurobiological mechanisms, trauma, anxiety, and psychoactive drugs. Research has further related...
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Somatization (category Defence mechanisms)
Somatization is the generation of somatic symptoms due to psychological distress, often coinciding with a tendency to seek medical help for them. The term...
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Compensation (psychology) (category Defence mechanisms)
In psychology, compensation is a strategy whereby one covers up, consciously or unconsciously, weaknesses, frustrations, desires, or feelings of inadequacy...
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Escapism (category Defence mechanisms)
Escapism is mental diversion from unpleasant aspects of daily life, typically through activities involving imagination or entertainment. Escapism also...
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memories, either consciously or unconsciously. It is an example of a defence mechanism, since these are unconscious or conscious coping techniques used to...
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Displacement (psychology) (category Defence mechanisms)
displacement (German: Verschiebung, lit. 'shift, move') is an unconscious defence mechanism whereby the mind substitutes either a new aim or a new object for...
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identification with it. Freud also considered social narcissism as a defence mechanism, apparent when communal identifications produce irrational panics...
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Identification (psychology) (category Defence mechanisms)
In her classic book The Ego and the Mechanism of Defence, Anna Freud introduced "two original defence mechanisms...both of which have become classics...
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Nudibranch (section Defence mechanisms)
nudibranchs have lost their shells, while developing alternative defence mechanisms. Some species evolved an external anatomy with textures and colours...
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Anticipation (category Defence mechanisms)
Lundqvist. (2010). "How does music evoke emotions? Exploring the underlying mechanisms." In P.N. Juslin & J. Sloboda (Eds.), Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory...
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physiologically active arthropod secretions. V. Histological studies of the defence mechanism of Narceus annularis (Raf.) (Diplopoda: Spirobolida)". Canadian Journal...
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