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Title: Freudian Defense Mechanisms


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Freudian Defense Mechanisms
  • OR How do I release my unconscious anxiety?

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Repression
  • The ejection of anxiety- evoking ideas from
    awareness.

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Suppression
  • Conscious Repression
  • Ex I will do this work later

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Rationalization( Intellectualization)
  • The use of self deceiving justifications for
    unacceptable behavior

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Displacement
  • The transfer of impulses from threatening to less
    threatening objects.
  • Ex A worker picks a fight with his spouse after
    a bad day

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Projection
  • Thrusting ones own id impulses onto others so
    that others are assumed to harbor them.
  • Ex Hostile Attributional Bias

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Reaction Formation
  • Assumption of behaviors opposite of genuine
    impulses to keep impulses repressed.
  • Ex Being overly nice to those you dislike

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Denial
  • Refusal to accept the true nature of a threat
  • Ex If I smoke I wont get cancer because.

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Sublimation
  • The channeling of primitive impulses into
    positive , constructive efforts.
  • Ex A hostile person who becomes a star athlete.

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