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Unconscious psychological mechanism
In psychoanalytic theory, defense mechanisms are unconscious psychological processes that protect the self from anxiety-producing thoughts and feelings related to internal conflicts and external stressors. Defences are automatically used to protect ourselves from threats and affects to maintain psychological balance and homeostasis. Defenses are automatic responses to external stressors or internal conflicts. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Defence mechanismA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Architecture and activation mechanism of the bacterial PARIS defence systemInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Mobile Warfare for AfricaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Nonspecific defence mechanism: the role of nitric oxideCited 238 times
- Go sideways: George Eman VaillantA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Index of psychology articlesA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Alternative form of defense mechanism.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Nonspecific defence mechanism: the role of nitric oxide
A putative viral defence mechanism in archaeal cells
Hagfish predatory behaviour and slime defence mechanism
Diving bradycardia: a mechanism of defence against hypoxic damage
A novel bacteriophage defence mechanism: the anti-restriction protein
An evaluation of the Defence Mechanism Test
Interferon as a Defence Mechanism in Mouse Cytomegalovirus Infection
Iron deprivation as a biological defence mechanism
🆕 Influential since 2022
Architecture and activation mechanism of the bacterial PARIS defence system
Cryo-EM structures of Escherichia coli Ec86 retron complexes reveal architecture and defence mechanism
Structure and mechanism of the Zorya anti-phage defence system
APT Adversarial Defence Mechanism for Industrial IoT Enabled Cyber-Physical System
Group 3 innate lymphoid cell pyroptosis represents a host defence mechanism against Salmonella infection
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Mobile Warfare for AfricaWillem Steenkamp, Roland DeVries · 2017
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