A patient tells a nurse that she recently lost her job and that ever since, she has been going home and verbally abusing her spouse and child. The patient has lost all of her friends and feels confused. This patient is presenting the defense mechanism of
1. Repression.
2. Displacement.
3. Conversion.
4. Restitution.
ANS: 2
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