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Defense Mechanisms

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Defense mechanisms are unconscious strategies the ego uses to reduce anxiety arising from internal conflict.

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A person who cannot admit anger at a parent describes the parent as angry at them.

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Defense mechanisms are hard to test because any behavior can be read as one. Some have measurable analogues.