Defense Mechanism
[n] (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
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alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance, avoidance mechanism, avoidance reaction, avoiding reaction, blame-shifting, block, blocking, circumvention, compensation, conversion, decompensation, defence, defense, defense in depth, defenses, dereism,