Defense Mechanisms
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- Defense Mechanisms
- Sublimation
- I need to hit something!
- Regression
- By Lana Mason
- Denial
- I can work just fine!
- Channeling of unacceptable and potentially disruptive impulses, thoughts, or emotions into sociallyacceptable behavior. For example, instead of hitting a person. someone may channel their anger by boxing.
- Projection
- YOU CHEATED ON ME?!
- This is a movement back in psychological timewhen one is faced with stress. For example, a child wetting the bed when faced with overwhelming situations.
- Displacement
- I need to hit something!
- Denial involves blocking external events fromawareness. If some situation is just too much tohandle, the person just refuses to experience it. For example, a man who denies that he has an alcohol addiction because he can still function and go to work.
- Disguising unacceptable thoughts, feeling, and motives by projecting them to others. The example is a woman who has been unfaithful to her husband but who accuses her husband of cheating on her.
- No I did not?
- Redirecting of thoughts, feelings, and impulses from one another who poses less threat. For example, a mother who is angry at her boss may take out her anger on her children by shouting at them.
- GO TO YOUR ROOM!
- WHY HAVEN’T YOU CLEANED YOUR ROOM!?!
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