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Defence Mechanisms - Coggle Diagram
Defence Mechanisms
Higher- Level
Anticipation
The devotion of one’s effort to solving problems before they arise. E.g. when someone prepares for a job interview by practicing the harder questions
Compensation
e.g. a student who receives poor grades on their report card and then devotes more time and effort to extracurricular clubs and activities.
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Intellectualization
e.g. someone diagnosed with a terminal illness does not show emotion after the diagnosis is given but instead starts to research every source they can find about the illness.
Isolation of Affect
e.g. someone who describes the day their house burnt down in a factual way without displaying any emotion.
Rationalization
e.g someone who steals money but feels justified in doing so because they needed the money more than the person from whom they stole.
Reaction Formation
e.g, When someone is overly kind to someone they dislike
Sexualisation
Associating sexual aspects to one’s experience of certain people, places, objects, or ideas. Sexualization can refer to the development of one’s sexual identity in general. Alternatively, sexualization can refer to the development of specific fetishes or sexual references to conventionally non-sexual entities.
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Suppression
e.g. someone who has intrusive thoughts about a traumatic event but pushes these thoughts out of their mind.
Primitive
Acting Out
e.g. Conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder, oppositional defiant disorder
Denial
e.g. may be present in someone who continues to shop for expensive designer clothes despite being in serious financial debt.
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Projection
Socially impermissible feelings are attributed to other people instead of oneself. For example, a person having an extramarital affair accuses their partner of infidelity
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Regression
e.g. a stressful event may cause an individual to regress to bed-wetting after they have already outgrown this behaviour.
Repression
e.g. when someone has no recollection of a traumatic event, despite being conscious during the event
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