Therapies {psychoanalysis} can try to reveal associations between defense mechanism and fear or anxiety, by free associations and gentle questioning. It requires that patients consciously want to change, but patients unconsciously resist change, to maintain defense mechanism and avoid fear and anxiety.
Patients learn about the pleasure principle and its relation to unconscious mental activity, attitudes, wishes, motives, and fundamental impulses. They realize that instinctual-drive frustration happens and that hallucination or wish fulfillment reduces it [Freud, 1899] [Freud, 1915] [Freud, 1915] [Freud, 1966] [Kitcher, 1992].
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