The traditional view of ego defense mechanisms is that they maintain emotional equilibrium and self-esteem. Evolutionary ...

Understand these self-protective psychological processes. Defense mechanisms are psychological processes that someone unconsciously engages in to avoid discomfort, and there are several specific types ...

The study of defence mechanisms provides critical insight into the unconscious psychological strategies individuals deploy to manage emotional conflict and perceived threats. Historically rooted in ...

Why we take our feelings out on the wrong people Reviewed by David Susman, PhD Displacement is a psychological defense mechanism in which a person redirects a negative emotion from its original source ...

A (light green) bacterial cell detects a source of stress and is activated (dark green). It adorns itself with alarmones (depicted as red triangles) and can transmit them via cell-to-cell contact with ...