According to psychoanalytic theory, people have
unconscious beliefs that are kept from becoming
conscious by a psychological mechanism termed
"repression." Researchers investigating the nature of
.this mechanism observed occasions on which a patient
undergoing therapy became aware of and expressed a
previously unconscious belief. They found that such
occasions were marked by an unusual decrease in the
patient's level of anxiety
unconscious beliefs that are kept from becoming
conscious by a psychological mechanism termed
"repression." Researchers investigating the nature of
.this mechanism observed occasions on which a patient
undergoing therapy became aware of and expressed a
previously unconscious belief. They found that such
occasions were marked by an unusual decrease in the
patient's level of anxiety
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