Isolation (psychology)

Isolation — defence mechanism in psychoanalytic theory, whereby the person "isolates" the unpleasant idea from the normal emotional response. For example, describing a murder in graphic details without an emotional involvement invokes isolation.

While in repression, which is a similar mechanism, the unpleasant idea becomes buried into the unconscious mind, in isolation, the idea remains, but the emotional response to it is withdrawn.^[1]

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