Assertion: mental disorder | /r/HasProperty | controlled by such defenses
Facets:
value: automatically
type: MANNER
value: as acts
type: MANNER
value: as depression
type: OTHER
value: as displacement
type: MANNER
value: as phobia formation
type: MANNER
value: as dissociation
type: MANNER
value: as conversion
type: MANNER
value: as repetitive thoughts
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: [T]hose disturbances in which “anxiety” is a chief characteristic, directly felt or expressed, or automatically controlled by such defenses as depression, conversion, dissociation, displacement, phobia formation, or repetitive thoughts and acts…a psychoneurotic reaction may be defined as one in which the personality, in its struggle for adjustment to internal and external stresses, utilizes the mechanisms listed above to handle the anxiety created (American Psychiatric Association 1952, 12-13).