Psychological defence mechanisms in escaping towards violence in Abbasi poetry

Psychological defence mechanisms - The example of repression

cognitive theories of forgetting. FOR many years the central role accorded to mechanisms of psychological defence was one of the characteristics that divided psychoanalytic theory and therapy from behavioural and cognitive therapies. Throughout his life Freud claimed that the purpose of psychoanalytic therapy was to lift the repression that excluded unacceptable mental contents from awareness i...

Defense mechanisms in psychological health and sport success of athletes

Introduction: Defense mechanisms represent a crucial component of our capacity to maintain emotional homeostasis. The present study is carried out with the purpose of determining the predictability of psychological health and sport success by defense mechanisms used by elite athletes. Materials & Methods: A sample of 385 (285 male and 100 female) elite at...

Persona and defence mechanisms.

Evaluation of Defence Mechanisms in Survivable Networks

In this paper we present an environment for evaluating self-healing mechanisms in survivable networks. The work is based on the thesis that system level requirements of integrity and availability can be inherently conflicting, and that the type and level of defence in each particular network should be determined in relation to the particular network’s characteristics. The study shows that defin...

Violence in India: a Psychological Perspective

Intraspecific violence is now established as a biological phenomenon intrinsic to living nature. Ethologists maintain that culturally moulded programs of aggression which can be released by certain environmental triggers exist in the nervous system among higher animals. Evidence also suggests that there co-exists a biological capacity for morality and empathy. A child by the age of two is endow...