ego defenses
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“The Jungians tell us that we have a 45-minute window from the time we wake up before we get our ego defenses in place,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2019
His quietly persuasive argument: the analysts talk of ego defenses being torn down in a psychosis, and when this happens the already anxious patient is overwhelmed.
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