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What are your favorite Defense Mechanisms?

What are your favorite Defense Mechanisms?

What we do not to feel comes out in ways we don't choose.

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Kathryn Gates, LMFT
Aug 17, 2023
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There are things that we do to decrease the experience of having difficult feelings. Sometimes they are helpful, especially if we are still able to address the emotion and express it. Sometimes, especially if we aren’t even aware that the emotion is there, these defense mechanisms can create more trouble for us.

Anna Freud (less known for her pioneer wo…

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