3 Mysterious “Defense Mechanisms” And How to Use Them For Your Advantage

Marium Rizvi
4 min readOct 6, 2021

Do you know what are defense mechanisms? A lot of people don’t know about them but they use them almost every day. Sigmund Freud used the term “defense mechanism” in his psychoanalytic theory.

How Do These Defense Mechanisms Work?

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Marium Rizvi

Writer l Clinical Psychologist l Researcher l Humanitarian