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cord-326527-j6ihs6jx	Walker, Graham	Psychological Defence Mechanisms during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Case Series	2020-11-07		.txt	text/plain	2698	139	42	This paper aims to describe a range of psychological defence mechanisms encountered within colleagues in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Deeper understanding of the gold-standard hierarchical organization of defence mechanisms could help increase utilisation of specific therapeutic interventions for enhancing changes from immature to mature defensive responses to stressful experiences as the COVID-19 pandemic progresses. It has been proposed that defence mechanisms associated with the COVID-19 pandemic could be more typically immature, in that anxiety over the viral outbreak can be temporarily alleviated by alteration of painful mental contents and/or radical distortion of external reality 10 . J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f Despite these described negative impacts of defence mechanisms, they have also played an important role as protective factors against psychological distress during the COVID-19 Using the methodology of a case series, this paper aims to describe a range of psychological defence mechanisms encountered within colleagues in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.	./cache/cord-326527-j6ihs6jx.txt	./txt/cord-326527-j6ihs6jx.txt