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Definition of Defence reaction

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

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Literary usage of Defence reaction

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Problem of the Nervous Child by Elida Evans (1920)
"Weak intellectual power frequently sets a defence reaction of extreme care about the personal appearance. A deformity or crippled condition, ..."

2. The New Psychology and Its Relation to Life by Arthur George Tansley (1920)
"This form of ration- \ alization (for a fuller treatment of which see Chapter XV) iis called a defence reaction. defence reactions, like hypocrisy, ..."

3. Annals of Medical History by Francis Randolph Packard (1921)
"As medicine is the saddest of arts, so medical humor may be termed sort of a defence reaction. The Death Dance caricatures of the Middle Ages are symbolic ..."

4. Mechanisms of Character Formation: An Introduction to Psychoanalysis by William Alanson White (1916)
"... may be looked at from the teleological standpoint as a defence reaction against a recognition of motives that would be painful or as the persistence of ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1922)
"The behavior of manic attacks is evidently a defence reaction, and in a depressed phase offence is no longer possible under profound consciousness of defect ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"... therefore, arrived for unmasking the true character of the neuroses and for recognizing it as a disease of protest or a defence reaction, ..."

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