Do You Use Primitive Defense Mechanisms? Anxiety and Trauma Counseling in Niantic, CT
Acting Out As A Primitive Protective Mechanism Acting out, a negative coping skill, communicates a need. Perhaps, this could be a need for connection, support, attention, or something else. For example, a child might act out in order to get a parents attention because they feel lonely. And, they behave poorly because they don’t know how to communicate what i
