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Defenses are mental operations that restore or maintain psychic equilibrium when people feel that they cannot manage emotions that stem from conflict; they remove components of unpleasant emotions from conscious awareness. For example, using sex, food, or hostility to relieve tension – that’s a defense – catalogued here as entry number 68: Impulsivity.

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101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself – Jerome S. Blackman