REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP

306 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP

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Social defenses are systems of relationships, refl ected in the social structure,

constructed to help people control and contain feelings of anxiety in diffi cult

situations. They function like individual defenses, but they are sewn into

the very fabric of a society.

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