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defense cascade: a standalone construct

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Psychophysiology

an ordered series of automatic defense responses, from arousal and freezing to fight or flight to immobility and collapse, as threat escalates.

In psychophysiology, defense cascade refers to an ordered series of automatic defense responses, from arousal and freezing to fight or flight to immobility and collapse, as threat escalates. This meaning comes from Kozlowska (2015) in Harvard Review of Psychiatry.[1]

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References

Kozlowska, K., Walker, P., McLean, L., & Carrive, P. (2015). Fear and the Defense Cascade: Clinical Implications and Management. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 23(4), 263-287. https://doi.org/10.1097/hrp.0000000000000065

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