Boston Defense Mechanism: A Psychological Analysis Of The Movie

Slightly different from the romantic novel, the movie adds drama and thriller that stars Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, and Cobie Smulders. The movie opens up with a fight that results in a bloody knife and fallen body. Erin, who is now known as Katie, runs away to make a new life for herself. She lands in Southport, North Carolina and finds herself a nice place to stay and a job as a waitress at Ivan’s Fish Shack. During Katie's couple of nights in Southport, she begins to have nightmares of what happened to her in Boston. Katie then becomes friends with Jo and meets Alex, who is a widow with two kids, Josh and Lexie. Katie and Alex's relationship begins to flourish and they seem to fall in love. Katie is also seen as a mother figure for Josh and Lexie, however, Josh still feels uneasy about it.
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anxiety) at an unconscious level. Denial is a form of defense mechanism where one refuses to acknowledge anything or refuses to accept the truth. There are many examples of the denial mechanism in Safe Haven. One example is when the old lady denies knowing who Katie is. Another example of denial mechanism is when Alex denies Katie for telling the truth when he sees her face on a wanted for murder flyer. Katie tells him that her husband was the one to put it out and she ran away from him, but Alex does not believe that. He feels heartbroken because he let her into his life and his children's lives. Another example of the denial mechanism at work is when Kevin's boss asks him what is in his water bottle. Kevin denies that his water bottle is filled with alcohol and instead tells his boss it is water. His boss also shows the fake wanted flyer he made on his wife and denies that he did not mean to put it out. The last example of denial mechanism is when Josh refuses to accept his mother's death. He constantly misses her and when her study room was burnt down he became