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Concepts that are sometimes associated with repression, but which are conceptually different, are also discussed in this paper: The act of suppression, ‘repressed memories,’ habitual suppression, concealment, type C coping pattern, type D personality, denial, alexithymia and blunting.
Sep 5, 2023 · This article explains psychological repression and provides examples of repression and the physical and emotional signs and symptoms. It also covers therapeutic methods that may help work through repression to promote healing.
Jul 25, 2007 · Concepts that are sometimes associated with repression, but which are conceptually different, are also discussed in this paper: The act of suppression, ‘repressed memories,’ habitual suppression, concealment, type C coping pattern, type D personality, denial, alexithymia and blunting.
- Bert Garssen
- bgarssen@hdi.nl
- 2007
Jun 14, 2024 · Here are some of the key concepts related to repression: Defense Mechanisms : Repression is one of the many defense mechanisms identified by Freud. It operates unconsciously to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious.
- Abstract
- Concepts Different from Repression
- Repressed Memories
- Discussion
Repression is associated in the literature with terms such as non-expression, emotional control, rational-ity, anti-emotionality, defensiveness and restraint. Whether these terms are synonymous with repression, indicate a variation, or are essentially different from repression is uncertain. To clarify this obscured view on repression, this paper in...
Concepts that are in our view different from repression are: the act of emotional suppression, repressed memories, habitual suppression, concealment, type C coping pattern, type D personality, denial, alexithymia and blunting. The first concept refers to an ‘act,’ whereas repression is dis-cussed in this paper as a tendency or coping style. Four of...
Repressing memories of traumatic events concerns a complex of cognitions and emotions that is mainly limited to a certain theme or event, such as sexual abuse in childhood. This is different from repression, which con-cerns the tendency not to express negative emotions in general. Repression of memories is initiated by traumatic events, whereas rep...
The way in which most people use the term ‘repression’ in an everyday context indicates that they generally under-stand what it actually refers to. Whether science was right to introduce the current assortment of subtle differences thus exposing the gross simplicity of society’s everyday use of the term, or whether science has ultimately entan-gled...
- Bert Garssen
- 2007
Repression is typically associated in literature with terms such as non-expression, emotional control, rationality, anti-emotionality, defensiveness and restraint. Whether these terms are synonymous with repression, indicate a variation, or are essentially different from repression is uncertain.
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Repression is a central concept of psychodynamic theories on psychosomatic and neurotic symptoms. It refers to the mechanism by which mental contents that are related to internal conflicts are made unconscious ( Freud, 1957a; Person et al., 2005; Wöller and Kruse, 2014 ).
