See Also: reaction formation(medicine)
Reaction formation(health)
V formation(finance)
formation(dictionary)
formation(dictionary)
ice formation(encyclopedia)
Formation(medicine)
V formation(money)
V-formation(dictionary)
re-formation(dictionary)

Reaction formation (health)


A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in which a person adopts affects, ideas, and behaviors that are the opposites of impulses harbored either consciously or unconsciously. For example, excessive moral zeal may be a reaction to strong but repressed asocial impulses.