Resilience Or Repression

form of repression is commonly found within the lives of children who survive cancer. It is something about surviving traumatic life risking events that cause an individual to repress their memories, and feelings in order to adapt and create a new.
Like that of childhood cancer survivors, children refugees survive extreme life threatening situations that distort their outlooks on life and experiences. It is no surprise, that researchers have found that repression is the highest used defense mechanism by children and adolescent refugees (Huemer, al. et, 2012). However, although some researchers have found the ability of refugee children to continue living and adapt to be a result of their use of the defense mechanism of repression. Others call it that ability resilience and count it a result of the children’s desire and strength.
Resilience or Repression
The question dealt with the idea of resilience or repression; in what cases is resilience the reaction and in which is the use of repression the true cause. Mcmenamy and Perrin concluded in their work that resilience is a result of repression. According to Mcmenamy and Perrin one is able to react with strength and great resilience when they use the defense mechanism of repression to protect themself from the devastating reality of