| 单词 | defense mechanism |
| 释义 | defense mechanism (once / 96880 pages) n WORD FAMILY defense mechanism: defense mechanisms USAGE EXAMPLES“Splitting itself into separate parts is one of the most powerful of the mind’s defense mechanisms,” he writes. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) There is, however, plenty of evidence testifying to the psychological dangers of stripping away people’s egos and defense mechanisms in a group setting. Slate(Dec 01, 2016) “This is a defense mechanism of white supremacy at work in your mind, sir,” Dyson told him. The Guardian(Nov 17, 2016) n (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires Syn|Hypo|Hyper defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense reaction compensation (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors conversion(psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis denial(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts displacement(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one idealisation, idealization(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad intellectualisation, intellectualization(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict 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 rationalisation, 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 reaction formation(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them regression(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state repression(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious transference(psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst overcompensation(psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite process, unconscious process a mental process that you are not directly aware of psychoanalytic processa process that is assumed to occur in psychoanalytic theory |
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