defense reaction

Noun defense reaction has 1 sense

• defense reaction(n = noun.process) defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism - (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires;
is a kind of process, unconscious process, psychoanalytic process
has particulars: compensation, conversion, denial, displacement, idealisation, idealization, intellectualisation, intellectualization, isolation, projection, rationalisation, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression