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How to sign: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Similiar / Same: defense mechanism, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defence, defense
Categories: process, psychoanalytic process, unconscious process
Within this category: compensation, conversion, denial, displacement, idealization, intellectualization, isolation, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression