Tension: We’ve turned communication incompetence into an acceptable personality trait, using self-deprecation to avoid ...

The study of defence mechanisms provides critical insight into the unconscious psychological strategies individuals deploy to manage emotional conflict and perceived threats. Historically rooted in ...

Everyone uses defense mechanisms, and if you believe Freud, everyone has to, in order to avoid staring in the face of our worst anxieties. Even if you don’t believe Freud, it’s hard to argue with the ...

Many times in therapy, clients talk about how they grew up learning to function in a particular way but that this way no longer seems to work. They might be experiencing relationships involving work, ...