Violence Can Be Defined as

question 34

Multiple Choice

Violence can be defined as

• A)injuries caused accidentally without intent to harm,such as in a car accident.
• B)a repeated implied or verbal threat against another person.
• C)a premeditated crime against another person,usually involving a weapon.
• D)the intentional use of physical force or power against oneself or another person or group.

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies brought into play by individuals or the ego to cope with reality and to maintain self-image by reducing anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings.

Repression

A psychological process in which traumatic memories are buried in the unconscious.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis, a method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Defense Mechanism

Unconscious psychological strategies brought into play by individuals to protect themselves from anxiety or to provide a refuge from a situation with which they cannot currently cope.