Usage of "defence mechanism"

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(Psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires.

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Unconscious psychological mechanism that reduces anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli.

Usage of defence mechanism in English

Some of these metabolites play important roles in the plant's defence mechanism. 
 Pubmed 

Did he avoid pining to be free as a kind of defence mechanism? 
 The Guardian 

Narcissism is fundamentally an evolved version of the splitting defence mechanism. 
 The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology 

I have this defence mechanism, this survival tactic of playing dumb. 
 The Guardian 

Sigmund Freud described it as a primitive defence mechanism used to resolve emotional conflict. 
 The Irish Times 

This is a well known defence mechanism in nations peripheral. 
 Terrorists and Freedom Fighters 

It may be an instinct, a kind of defence mechanism for dealing with shock.' 
 Voices 

We do not talk about it, it's a defence mechanism, we lock it away. 
 The Guardian 

But the female supplies the eggs with a defence mechanism. 
 BBC 

A defence mechanism, that's what the big bloke had been shouting about, wasn't it. 
 Pack animals 

Rihanna had an acceptance speech where she talked about how fashion was her defence mechanism. 
 Radio NZ 

It's partly a defence mechanism against the fannish hysteria that increasingly attends his every move. 
 The Guardian 

She was the model for the island's self- defence mechanism. 
 iD 

The target's inner self- defence mechanism will always spot this. 
 Meltdown 

Thus, type 2 immunity can be mobilized as an effective tissue-level defence mechanism against cancer. 
 Pubmed 

Newt did so with a thumbs-up gesture, still employing selective silence as a defence mechanism. 
 The Complete Alien Omnibus 

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Meanings of defence mechanism in English