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  #1

What is diff: b/w blocking & repression???

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  #2

Blocking or suppression- voluntary withholding of an idea or feeling fr conscious awareness

Repression-involuntary w/holding of an idea fr conscious awareness.

  #3

All defnse mechanisms are unconscious....
So Blocking is......transient block in thinking recover just after some time.
while repression is .....feeling or idea is eliminated from conscious & usually not recoverable without some trauma or psychoanalysis..
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  #4

Repression is the blocking of unacceptable impulse from consciousness

As an abused child don't remember that he is abused.




Suppression is the only one that is conscious

  #5

suppresion is the only defense that is conscious.....that is nice info..thnx

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  #6

Blocking & Repression FROM conscious awareness-- source kaplan behavioral...







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