UTS at PsyDefDetect: Multi-Agent Councils and Absence-Based Reasoning for Defense Mechanism Classification

arXiv:2605.09769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper describes our system for classifying psychological defense mechanisms in emotional support dialogues using the Defense Mechanism Rating Scales (DMRS), placing second (F1 0.406) among 64 teams.1 A central insight is that defense mechanisms...