THE HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM
DEFENSE MECHANIS
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Projection
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Sublimation
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Repression
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Regression
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Detailed explanation-1: -7 Main Defense Mechanisms This list is sometimes shortened to provide only seven main defense mechanisms, which are denial, displacement, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, repression, and sublimation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Regression is a defense mechanism in which people seem to return to an earlier developmental stage. This tends to occur around periods of stress-for example, an overwhelmed child may revert to bedwetting or thumb-sucking. Regression may arise from a desire to reduce anxiety and feel psychologically safe.
Detailed explanation-3: -Projection Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dissociation defense mechanism examples A doctor’s parents pressured her into her profession, even though she dreamed of being an athlete. She dissociates by daydreaming about athleticism instead of acknowledging the career turmoil she is experiencing.