Canadian Medical Guide > Psychiatry and Psychology > Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Defense Mechanisms > Repression Terms and Definitions
Repression
Medical Definition: | The active mental process of keeping out and ejecting, banishing from consciousness, ideas or impulses that are unacceptable to it. |
Guide Notes: | no qualif |
Also Called: | Delayed Memory,False Memory Syndrome,Repressed Memory |
Repression-Sensitization - Defense mechanisms involving approach and avoidance responses to threatening stimuli. The sensitizing process involves intellectualization in approaching or controlling the stimulus whereas repression involves unconscious denial in avoiding the stimulus. |
Repression Medical Definitions and Terms
|
Wildlife On Video »
Canada's Great Outdoors
Tour Canadian Rockies »
Book Banff »
Book Jasper »
Maligne Lake Boat Cruise »
Gondola Banff »
Hike Jasper »
Jasper Columbia Icefield »