externalization

is a kind of:

• mechanism » defense mechanism
• safety device » defense mechanism
• mechanism » defense mechanism » neurotic defense mechanism
• safety device » defense mechanism » neurotic defense mechanism

• In psychoanalytic theory the defense mechanism, similar to projection, that operates by attribution of intrapsychic phenomena to an object.
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This term appears in...

• psychoanalysis
• psychodynamic psychotherapy

See also:

- Choose - alienation externalize feelings and thoughts internalization psychoanalysis psychodynamic psychotherapy