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- Defense mechanisms are unconscious strategies that people use to reduce anxiety by concealing the source from themselves and others.
- The primary defense mechanism is repression, in which unacceptable or unpleasant id impulses are pushed back into the unconscious.
- Defense mechanisms protect us from unpleasant information.
- They can consume a large amount of psychic energy if we are hiding and re-channeling unacceptable impulses.
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