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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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