Blocking

Inability to express true feelings or thoughts, usually as a result of emotional or mental conflict. In Freudian- based psychotherapies, blocking is regarded as originating from repression of painful emotions in early life. A very specific form of thought blocking occurs in schizophrenia: trains of thought are persistently interrupted involuntarily to be replaced by unrelated new ones. (See also psychotherapy.)

 

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