Defense Mechanisms
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Defense Mechanisms are conscious and unconscious strategies used by the Physical Unit to protect itself from physical, emotional, or psychological damage. Defense mechanisms may be physical, as when the individual throws their up hands to protect their head from a blow, or psychological as when the individual represses or Sublimates energy to avoid painful confrontation.
Defense mechanisms, which are often accompanied by the release of activating substances into the body, are adaptive in the short term because they support protective action, but maladaptive in the longer term because chronic release of stimulators is toxic to the Physical Unit.
See Also
Sharp, Michael (2012). Defense Mechanisms. The SpiritWiki: http://www.thespiritwiki.com/index.php/Defense_Mechanisms [Accessed: February 5, 2012]
