The Intriguing Psychology Behind Regression

How do you identify a regression defence mechanism

Afshara
3 min readDec 24, 2021
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As a PhD researcher, I enjoy gathering insights that will help me better understand our sense of personality, behaviour, and mind.

There are 20 different defence mechanisms and, regression is one of them.

What is regression?

Regression is one type of defence mechanism. The person using regression appears to return to their earlier age and behave immaturely or improperly. Regression defence mechanisms can be used by both adults and children.

Usually, when someone is stressed, he or she is more likely to use regression. In some cases, the person might use regression to return to a certain phase of life when he or she feels secure, protected, and comfortable.

Examples of regression

For instance, if a person is getting late to get somewhere because of traffic, he or she might feel enraged and display temper tantrums. Despite the fact, that the person does not behave this way usually.

Another example can be a student who is having anxiety before an exam. To reduce the anxiety, the student might spend the night chatting with his or her close friend just like they used to do back when they…

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