Defense mechanisms are rooted in Freud’s theory of personality.According to his model, the mind has three dueling forces: the id (unconscious and primitive urges for food, comfort, and sex), the ...
A joint research group team led by Sayuri Tsukahara and Tetsuji Kakutani of the University of Tokyo has clarified a mechanism of how retrotransposons, genetic elements that can "jump around ...
Reaction formation may be a temporary coping mechanism, but it’s unproductive in the long run. It ignores underlying beliefs or challenges that need to be addressed, which can hurt mental health.
A multifactorial approach should be used to account for all the factors involved-that is, the internal and external risk factors as well as the inciting event (the injury mechanism). Although such ...
From Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville Campus, Victoria, Australia (R.H.R.) Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism (E.D.A.), ...