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Repression, Psychology
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Definition
: The active mental process of keeping out and ejecting, banishing from consciousness, ideas or impulses that are unacceptable to it.
Examples
Repression-Sensitization
Other names
Repression; Repressed Memory; False Memory Syndrome; Delayed Memory; Syndrome, False Memory; Psychology Repression; Memory, Repressed; Memory, Delayed; Memory Syndrome, False; Memories, Repressed; Memories, Delayed; False Memory Syndromes; Delayed Memories