Defense Mechanisms
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS
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What is a defense Mechanism?
• Answer: • Your response to the environment around you.• Ways that people react to stressful situations
There are healthy and unhealthy ways of dealing with problems.
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Is it healthy to use a defense mechanism?
• A defense mechanism is only a problem when its persistent use leads to behavior that effects mental or physical health.
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Why do people use defense mechanisms?
• The purpose of the Ego Defense Mechanism is to protect the mind/self/ego from anxiety, social sanctions or to provide a refuge from a situation with which one cannot currently cope.
• >>> In simple terms: You use this to make it through an uncomfortable situation you don’t think you can deal with.
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What is your response to the environment when…
• 1. Your car breaks down?• 2. A family member dies?• 3. You get promoted?• 4. You get that perfect date?
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Denial• You choose not to accept what is happening or what has
happened in order to make it through the situation.
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Direct Attack• A response to a threat to your self-esteem. You attack the
source that attacked you.
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Compensation• Using a different method to achieve the same goal.
• Example: Sam is bad at basketball so he tries baseball instead.
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Rationalization• Explaining your weaknesses or
failures by giving socially acceptable excuses.
• Example: Failing a test and blaming it on the subject matter or the teacher rather than not studying.
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Rationalization cont.
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Projection/ Scapegoat
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Displacement• When you transfer emotion connected with one person to
an unrelated person or thing.
• Example: Someone who abuses their pets or family members after a bad day at work.
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Conversion• Transfer the energy of a desire you cannot express into a
physical symptom or complaint
• Example: Sweaty hands because you are nervous.
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Regression• Revert back to a less mature stage of life.
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Idealization• Value something far more than it’s worth.
• This thing could be yourself and you begin to act conceded.
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Daydreaming• Accomplish something in your imagination that you cannot
accomplish in reality.
• Example: Dreaming about becoming a movie star.
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Giving Up• Discouraged with feelings that the world is against you.