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- This theory suggests that repression occurs to manage cognitive dissonance —the discomfort that arises when conflict occurs between your beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Repression minimizes this dissonance by pushing conflicting thoughts and emotions out of awareness.
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Repression is the general term that is used to describe the tendency to inhibit the experience and the expression of negative feelings or unpleasant cognitions in order to prevent one’s positive self-image from being threatened (‘repressive coping style’).
Over a century ago, Freud proposed that memories can be forgotten by pushing them into the unconscious, a process called repression. The existence of repression has remained controversial for more than a century, in part because of its strong coupling with trauma and...
- Michael C. Anderson
- 2006
Feb 26, 2021 · Recent research on trauma, attachment and neuroscience point at a clear divide in psychopathology between disorders based on repression, (as in Freud's repression model) and psychopathologies structured on dissociative mechanisms, a response to severe interpersonal trauma.
- Clara Mucci
- clara.mucci@unibg.it
- 2021
Sep 30, 2013 · Erdelyi 2006 approaches the subject of repression by considering several important questions, including, how can repression be defined? and, is it possible to repress unwanted memories? Brewin 2007 examines the effect of trauma on memory.
Jan 1, 2020 · Repression is a defense mechanism whereby unpleasure-provoking mental processes, such as morally disagreeable impulses and painful memories, are actively prevented from entering conscious awareness.
- Simon Boag
- simon.boag@mq.edu.au
Jan 1, 2006 · "Repression" was introduced by Herbart to designate the (nondefensive) inhibition of ideas by other ideas in their struggle for consciousness. Freud adapted repression to...
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Repression: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach. Michael C. Anderson. Published 2006. Psychology. Over a century ago, Freud proposed that memories can be forgotten by pushing them into the unconscious, a process called repression.
