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Personality: Self concept · Personality testing · Theories · Mind-body problem
- See also: Inhibition (disambiguation)
Inhibition as a personality process is characterised by increased levels of introversion and social inhibition and the widespread attempted suppression of thoughts, feelings and behavior.
In psychoanalytic theory
In psychoanalysis such a personality process reflects the superego's overcontrolling of Id impulses. In classical theory inhibition is used in the sense of prevention as in the prevention of expression.