You may use defense mechanisms to help protect you from stress, but they can be both helpful and harmful. Recognizing defense ...

Our tongue is a powerful muscle. Human beings have learned to utilize language to love, comfort, destroy, and even protect our emotions. Defense mechanisms can arise at any moment when we feel ...

Note that this author has published a book, entitled “Illuminating Schizophrenia: Insights into the Uncommon Mind”, available on Amazon.com. Anna Freud (1937) created a theory of defense mechanisms ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death worldwide. In recent years, immunotherapies-treatments that reactivate the immune system to attack tumor cells-have transformed the ...

Insects and plants have an important ancient defense mechanism that helps them to fight viruses. This is encoded in their DNA. Scientists have long assumed that vertebrates - including humans - also ...