A widow is brought to the clinic by her son, who found her at home crying. She said that she could not go on. He tells the nurse that when his father died six months earlier, and the family was amazed at his mothers fortitude during and immediately after the funeral. She did not cry or seem unduly upset. The nurse recognizes that his mother had previously dealt with her husbands death by using which defense mechanism
a. Repression
b. Denial
c. Rationalization
d. Sublimation
