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The Triangle
POSITION: DEFENCE

Defences are ways of handling feelings and anxiety. They can also make it harder to understand what we feel.

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Canvas2D · clinical · June 2026

The Triangle

Three corners: feelings, anxiety and defences. Click or tap a corner and follow the marker between them. In ISTDP, the triangle of conflict is used to explore how they relate. In the animation, the path from defences to the feelings corner passes through the anxiety corner. The meter shows the time spent at the corner. In therapy, the work is adapted to the person and to what happens in the session.

The image labels are in Swedish: försvar (defence), ångest (anxiety), känsla (feeling).

Status: Active · Last touched: 2026-06-10

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