Defense Mechanism

• FANTASY


  Temporary escapes from the frustrations of reality.
• NOMADISM


  Continual wandering from place to place.
• Regression

  means “going-back”. a frustrated individual may seek unconsciously to return to an earlier more secure period of life.
• Repression


  process of excluding from conscious awareness of undesirable thought, feeling, or memory that causes pain, shame or guilt.
• Displacement


  this mechanism a feeling is transferred from its actual object to a substitute.
• Three Kinds of Displacement

  • Scapegoating
  • Free-floating Anger
  • Suicide
• Projection

  the individual unconsciously convince himself that others have the undesirable thoughts and motives that he actually has

  himself.
• Sublimation


  indirect expression of a need which cannot be satisfied directly, through acceptance of an alternate goal which provides a socially acceptable outlet of expression of the sexual urge.
• Substitution

  expression of frustrated impulses indirectly with no change in conscious quality of desires.
• Rationalization


  Logical explanations are devised to explain and justify behavior which might result loss of social approval and self-esteem.
• Compensation


  it is an attempt to disguise the presence of a weak or undesirable trait by emphasizing desirable one.
• Overcompensation

  this is extreme or socially unacceptable attempt to counterbalance failure actual or imagined inferiority.
• Isolation

  this is consisting of avoidance of conflict between two opposed desires or attitudes by keeping them part in logic tights compartment "in consciousness.
• Undoing


  this mechanism, the individual divest himself of painful feelings by making use of cleansing rituals after doing something which causes his to feel guilty.
• Dissociation


  psychologic separation or splitting off; and intrapsychic defense process which operates automatically and unconsciously.
• Fixation


  the arrest of psychosexual development. Development may be halted at on incomplete stage with persistence of certain completely matured elements.
• Resistance


  opposition to bringing or repressed data into awareness.
• Resolution


  mechanism of relieving the mind of a lead of guilty by substitutive acts (making up for separation.
• Denial


  a defense mechanism operating unconsciously, use to resolve emotional conflict and anxiety by denying a thought, feeling, wish, need, or external reality factor which is consciously intolerable.
• Symbolism

  an unconscious mental process whereby one object or idea comes to stand for another through some part, quality or aspect which two have in common.
• Identification


  mechanism by which the child takes over the attitudes and behavior patterns of his parents and other significant to him.
• Reaction Formation


  a psychological defense mechanism in which a person goes beyond denial and behaves in the opposite way to which he or she thinks or feels.