compartmentalization

is a kind of:

• mechanism » defense mechanism
• safety device » defense mechanism

In psychoanalytic theory, separating parts of one's personality as a defense mechanism.

This term appears in...

• psychoanalysis
• psychodynamic psychotherapy

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