mécanisme de défense

Definitions of mécanisme de défense
  1. noun
    (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
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    types:
    projection
    (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
    type of:
    processus inconscient
    a mental process that you are not directly aware of
    processus psychanalytique
    a process that is assumed to occur in psychoanalytic theory
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