Look up: reaction-formation

1. reaction formation
   [n] - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them
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2. reaction formation
   In psychoanalysis, a postulated defense mechanism in which attitudes and behaviours that are adopted are the opposites of that which the individual would ordinarily be expected to express and actually feel at an unconscious level. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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3. reaction formation
   noun (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them; `his strict ...
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4. reaction formation
   (from the article `defense mechanism`) 2. Reaction formation is the fixation in consciousness of an idea, affect, or desire that is opposite to a feared unconscious impulse. A mother who ... ...of those drives. Other methods of defense include repression, a kind of withholding of conflicting ideas from recall; projection, the attributio...
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5. reaction formation
   Type: Term Definitions: 1. in psychoanalysis, a postulated defense mechanism in which attitudes and behaviors that are adopted are the opposites of that which the patient would ordinarily be expected to express and actually feel at an unconscious level.
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6. Reaction formation
   In psychoanalytic theory, `reaction formation` is a defensive process (defense mechanism) in which anxiety-producing or unacceptable emotions and impulses are mastered by exaggeration (hypertrophy) of the directly opposing tendency.<ref name="defenses-psychpage"> --><ref name="R...
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7. reaction-formation
   (re-ak´shәn for-ma´shәn) a type of defense mechanism in which a person assumes an attitude that is the reverse of some infantile wish or impulse that he or she still feels.
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8. reaction-formation
   reaction-formation: see defense mechanism.
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