Denial is one of the most common defense mechanisms. It occurs when you refuse to accept reality or facts. You block external events or circumstances from your mind so that you don’t have to deal with the emotional impact. In other words, you avoid the painful feelings or events. Like asking a child abused physically by his father, and he deny to preserve the image of his father.
Introduction
Defense mechanisms are behaviors used to separate themselves from unpleasant actions or thoughts. The psychological strategies may help ...
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Projection is the misattribution of a person’s undesired thoughts, feelings or impulses into another person who does not have those. It is...
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Undoing is the attempt to take back an unconscious behavior or thought that is un acceptable or hurtful. For instance, after realizing tha...
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Displacement is the redirecting of thoughts, feeling and impulses directed at one person or object, but taken out upon another person or o...
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