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Defense mechanisms are crucial to good mental health - but not in the way you think.
We now know that defense mechanisms, or nonconscious information processing, work to protect a fragile or underdeveloped ego against either feeling something that the individual doesn’t want to feel, knowing something the individual doesn’t want to know, or experiencing something the individual doesn’t want to experience. What is lesser known is how central primitive defense mechanisms are to personality disorders and disorders of the self.
