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  • Black and white portrait of Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, seated and looking at the camera.
    defense mechanism

    Denial is the conscious refusal to perceive that painful facts exist. For example, in denying the reality of a loved one’s terminal diagnosis, an individual can escape intolerable thoughts, feelings, or events. 7. Rationalization is the substitution of a safe and reasonable explanation for the…

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    Denial is the conscious refusal to perceive that painful facts exist. For example, in denying the reality of a loved one’s terminal diagnosis, an individual can escape intolerable thoughts, feelings, or events. 7. Rationalization is the substitution of a safe and reasonable explanation for the…

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