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How repressed emotions affect the body psychology most often views repressed emotions as a psychic event something that takes place in the mind or brain psychoanalyst wilhelm reich a contemporary of carl jung took a different viewpoint reich observed the effects repressed emotions had on the body calling it body armor as we accumulate . Psychology in both its academic and practical aspects is now at the parting of the ways and the immediate future will determine whether it shall remain unproduc. Repressed emotions can also factor into mental health conditions such as stress anxiety and depression these issues often cause physical symptoms including muscle tension and pain. The test was designed in the 20th century by the hungarian psychiatrist leopold szondi the aim was to explore the deepest repressed impulses of a person on the basis of sympathy or aversion caused by the specific photos of psychopathsthe szondi test is based on the general notion that the characteristics that bother us in others are those that caused aversion to ourselves at an early stage . In psychology repression of emotion is an aspect of emotion regulation it is a concept that is based on individuals knowledge of emotions which includes causes of emotion sensations of the body and about behavior that are expressed and their possible means of modification 1repression of emotion implies the act of masking facial and bodily expressions in order to conceal a current