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

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  • “Bresler refers to tic as a motor reaction to original mental shock, so that it is in fact a psychic defense reaction of expression.”

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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hypernyms (3)

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  1. process
  1. unconscious process
  1. psychoanalytic process

hyponyms (15)

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  1. rationalization
  2. conversion
  3. rationalisation
  1. projection
  2. intellectualization
  3. regression
  1. idealisation
  2. compensation
  3. reaction formation
  1. isolation
  2. intellectualisation
  3. displacement
  1. repression
  2. idealization
  3. denial

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. displacement
  1. immune reaction
  1. immune response
  1. immunologic response

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