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FREUD- Ego Defences (Defence Mechanisms (The Ego's way of protecting…
FREUD- Ego Defences
Defence Mechanisms
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defence mechanisms derived from
- genetics
- environmental factors
- family
- community
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REPRESSION
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Definition: Abrupt and involuntary removal from awareness of any threatening impulse, idea, or memory
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example = A child who is abused by a parent later has no recollection of the events, but has trouble forming relationships.
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REACTION FORMATION
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example: A child who had been aggressive toward her mother becomes overly concerned for her mother’s safety and welfare and became excessively worried that some harm would befall her mother.
DENIAL
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definition: blocking of external events from entry to awareness when perception of such stimuli is symbolically or associatively related to threatening impulses
example= a recent widow continues to set a place for her husband at the dinner table- she also fantasizes about conversation with him
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RATIONALISATION
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definition= Controversial behaviours or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable—or even admirable and superior—by plausible means.
appealing to acceptable reasons for unacceptable thoughts, feelings or behaviours
example= Telling myself that it is okay to use a Wikipedia definition for ‘rationalisation’ because Wikipedia is a good place for starting an investigation or a conversation starter and I simply like the way their definition is worded, despite knowing that Wikipedia is largely frowned on (and unreliable) as an academic resource.
PROJECTION
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Definition = Attribution to another person or object one’s own unacceptable impulses, wishes, or thoughts
can project both "good" and "not good" material
- if you dont like something about yourself you project it onto someone else and dislike that about them
Examples = A husband who has barely resisted (or perhaps not resisted) the temptation to be unfaithful to his wife begins to be chronically suspicious about her fidelity to him.
REGRESSION
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Definition: return to earlier modes of response when confronted with anxiety
- earlier modes- reverting to previous phases of your life
May include behaviours as well as appeal to comforting books, films, foods, items
Examples = Upon being first separated from his mother to stay a friend’s house for a sleepover, Sven begins sucking his thumb and soils his pants (things which he outgrew years earlier)
SUBLIMIATION
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Definition: transformation of an impulse (usually socially unacceptable) into a social productive and acceptable form
Channels psychic energy away from destructive acts and into something that is social acceptable and/or creatively effective
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