The patient complains to the nurse that the physician does not like him and wants him to fail at following the diet prescribed. The nurse recognizes that the patient is using the defense mechanism of:
a. conversion.
b. projection.
c. introjection.
d. repression.
B
Projection is attributing to others characteristics that the person does not want to acknowledge.
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