Psychoanalytic Psychology

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Psychoanalytic Psychology.

• Ego psychology — A psychoanalytic school that treats the ego's reality-oriented functions, defenses, development and adaptation as partly autonomous objects of theory and clinical interpretation.
• Reaction formation — A psychoanalytic defense in which an unacceptable or anxiety-provoking impulse is managed by adopting and exaggerating the opposite attitude or behavior.