Defense mechanism From: Oakland Tribune | Date: April 9, 2005 | Copyright 2005 Oakland Tribune. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Iconfess. This was going to be my easy column. It would be spring break. I'd be in Hawaii. I didn't want to work too hard. So, I figured I'd write the defense mechanism column.

I'd been planning on writing this for a while. Because of that, and because a lot of the column would be defining each psychological defense mechanism, it was practically already written.

But life is never simple. While jetting across the Pacific, I read one of those books that change your life. This one...

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