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Compartmentalization is a defense mechanism whereby, as a kind of dissociating, one embodies multiple conflicting values [i.e. Cheating on one's partner and extolling the virtues of monogamy without sensing the contradiction].
Compartmentalization is a defense mechanism whereby, as a kind of dissociating, one embodies multiple conflicting values [i.e. Cheating on one's partner and extolling the virtues of monogamy without sensing the contradiction].