Mini-Episode 002: Defense Mechanisms - The Unconscious Story Editor

What if your mind isn’t lying to you… it just won’t let you know the truth? In this mini episode of Doctor the Psychology, we explore how defense mechanisms quietly script your sense of self, filter your experience of others, and organize your understanding of reality—all without your consent.

From repression and denial to mature sublimation, we explain the hierarchy of defenses, the neuroscience of nonconscious processing, and how narrative coherence can become a prison of the false self.

This is the crash course on what defenses are really doing—psychologically, emotionally, and developmentally.

Because what protects you… can also trap you.