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Anonymous
06-04-2003, 09:59 PM
18 yr old who is scheduled for elective surgery starts to hug her
teddy bear and flapped her wings like a chicken. what defense mechanism?
Anonymous
06-05-2003, 08:30 PM
18 yr old who is scheduled for elective surgery starts to hug her
teddy bear and flapped her wings like a chicken. what defense mechanism?

Is this transforming? She's transformed into something that is not. In this case it's the chicken.
Anonymous
06-05-2003, 08:59 PM
I'm thinking its regression...shez going back to her childhood behavior..do we have any MCs??
mjl1717
06-05-2003, 09:47 PM
Id say regression because she is in a more infintile state.