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Defense Mechanisms (We use defense mechanisms to (help ward off unpleasant…
Defense Mechanisms
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Repression
This is not a very successful defense in the long term since it involves forcing disturbing wishes, ideas or memories into the unconscious
Repressed memories may appear through subconscious means and in altered forms, such as dreams or slips of the tongue ('Freudian slips').
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Displacement
is the redirection of an impulse (usually aggression) onto a powerless substitute target. The target can be a person or an object that can serve as a symbolic substitute.
The Ego thus finds some other way of releasing the psychic energy of the Id. Thus there is a transfer of energy from a repressed object-cathexis to a more acceptable object.
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Sigmund Freud
psychological strategies that are unconsciously used to protect a person from anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings
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Projection
an individual attributes unwanted thoughts, feelings and motives onto another person.
Thoughts most commonly projected onto another are the ones that would cause guilt such as aggressive and sexual fantasies or thoughts
Denial
involves a refusal to accept reality, thus blocking external events from awareness.
If a situation is just too much to handle, the person may respond by refusing to perceive it or by denying that it exist.
Regression
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Regression functions as form of retreat, enabling a person to psychologically go back in time to a period when the person felt safer.
Sublimation
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takes place when we manage to displace our unacceptable emotions into behaviours which are constructive and socially acceptable, rather than destructive activities.