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    This document defines and provides examples of various mental defense mechanisms. It explains that defense mechanisms are unconscious attempts to reduce anxiety and protect self-esteem. Some mechanisms like repression and suppression involve unconsciously avoiding uncomfortable thoughts, while others like rationalization and projection involve unconsciously misattributing thoughts and feelings. The document provides definitions for 20 common defense mechanisms and 4 examples of them in action.

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    This document defines and provides examples of various mental defense mechanisms. It explains that defense mechanisms are unconscious attempts to reduce anxiety and protect self-esteem. Some mechanisms like repression and suppression involve unconsciously avoiding uncomfortable thoughts, while others like rationalization and projection involve unconsciously misattributing thoughts and feelings. The document provides definitions for 20 common defense mechanisms and 4 examples of them in action.

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    This document defines and provides examples of various mental defense mechanisms. It explains that defense mechanisms are unconscious attempts to reduce anxiety and protect self-esteem. Some mechanisms like repression and suppression involve unconsciously avoiding uncomfortable thoughts, while others like rationalization and projection involve unconsciously misattributing thoughts and feelings. The document provides definitions for 20 common defense mechanisms and 4 examples of them in action.

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    DYNAMICS OF ADJUSTMENT

    MENTAL MECHANISMS and


    DEFENSE MECHANISMS
     are terms used interchangeably to describe the unconscious
    attempt to obtain from relief from emotional conflict or
    anxiety.

    Such mechanisms are supposedly in action by age ten and are


    used as follows:
    1. To resolve a mental conflict.
    2. To reduce anxiety or fear.
    3. Protect one’s self-esteem.
    4. Protect one’s sense of security
    Security (Webster) – defines as safety or freedom from
    worry or uncertainty.
    Some are considered to be healthy, whereas others are
    considered pathologic or characteristic of a mental
    disorder.

    DEFENSE MECHANISM DEFINITION


    1. Repression Unconscious and involuntary
    forgetting of painful ideas, events
    and conflicts.
    2. Suppression Voluntary exclusion from
    awareness, anxiety-producing
    feelings, ideas and situations.
    3. Denial Unconscious refusal to admit an
    unacceptable idea or behavior.
    4. Rationalization Attempts to make or prove that
    one’s feelings or behaviors are
    justifiable.
    5. Intellectualization Using only logical
    explanations without feelings
    or an affective component.
    6. Isolation The process of separating an
    unacceptable feeling, idea, or
    impulse from one’s
    thoughts (also referred to as
    emotional isolation).
    7. Dissociation The act of separating and
    detaching a strong, emotionally
    changed conflict from one’s
    consciousness.
    > this detached information is
    blocked from conscious awareness,
    which allows the person to defer or
    postponed of experiencing an
    emotional impact or painful
    feelings.
    8. Identification A conscious or
    unconscious attempt to
    model oneself after a
    respected person.
    9. Introjection Unconsciously incorporating
    wishes, values, and attitudes
    of others as if they were your
    own.
    10. Projection Blaming someone’s else for
    one’s difficulties or placing
    one’s unethical desires on
    someone’s else.
    11. Compensation Covering up for a weaknes by
    overemphasizing or making
    up a desirable trait.
    12. Reaction-Formation A conscious behavior
    that is the exact opposite of an
    unconscious feeling.
    13. Sublimation Channeling instinctual drives
    into acceptable activities.
    14. Displacement Discharging pent-up feelings
    to a less threatening object.
    15. Conversion The unconscious expression
    of intrapsychic conflict
    symbolically through physical
    symptoms.
    16. Undoing Doing something to
    counteract or make-up for a
    transgression wrongdoing.
    17. Regression Return to an earlier and
    more comfortable
    developmental level.
    18. Fixation Immobilization of a portion of
    the personality resulting from
    unsuccessful completion of
    tasks in a developmental
    stage.
    19. Fantasy Imagined events or mental
    images (e.g. daydreaming) to
    express unconscious conflicts,
    gratify unconscious wishes or
    prepare for anticipated future
    events.
    20. Symbolization
    examples
     An adolescent comes home late from a dance and
    states that her van was busted
     Answer : Projection

     A student awakens with a migraine headache the


    morning of a final examination and feels too ill to
    take the test. She does not realize that 2 hours of
    cramming left her unprepared.
     Answer: Conversion
     An adolescent arrested once for stealing later
    opens a business installing security systems in
    banks.
     Answer: Sublimation

     A student states, “I cannot think about my


    wedding tonight. I have to study.”
     Answer : Suppression

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