You may use defense mechanisms to help protect you from stress, but they can be both helpful and harmful. Recognizing defense ...

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 ...

Understand these self-protective psychological processes. Defense mechanisms are psychological processes that someone unconsciously engages in to avoid discomfort, and there are several specific types ...

A (light green) bacterial cell detects a source of stress and is activated (dark green). It adorns itself with alarmones (depicted as red triangles) and can transmit them via cell-to-cell contact with ...