Emanuela Brun Psychologist Msc

Suppression is a conscious psychological process in which a person deliberately chooses to temporarily set aside a thought, emotion, worry, or impulse in order to focus on something else. Unlike repression, which in psychoanalytic theory is considered an unconscious defense mechanism, suppression involves awareness of what we are thinking or feeling. In simple terms, suppression can be understood as: “I know this is affecting me, but I am choosing not to deal with it right no