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Automatic strategies used unconsciously to avoid anxiety, internal conflict, or unpleasant thoughts.

Excessive expression of certain personality traits. which contributes to increased vulnerability to certain traumatic influences.

Negative feelings, desires, or experiences that a person carries in the unconscious part of their personality.

The theory that people are motivated to grow and change based on innate psychological needs, and are capable of self-determination when their needs for autonomy,.

One of the three components of personality in Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. The function of the ego is to find a balance between unconscious instinctual drives.