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What are defense mechanisms in general? - ✔✔Tactics that the ego use to reduce anxiety
by unconsciously distorting reality.
Displacement - ✔✔directing unacceptable impulses at a less threatening target
example: a woman cannot take her anger out on her boss, so she goes home and takes it out on
her husband
Repression - ✔✔pushes impulses back into the unconscious.
example: a young girl was sexually abused by her uncle. As an adult, she cannot
remember anything about the traumatic experience
Projection - ✔✔the ego attributes personal shortcomings, problems, and faults to others
example: a man who has a strong desire to have an extramarital affair accuses his wife of
flirting with other men
Rationalization - ✔✔the ego replaces a less acceptable motive with a more acceptable one
, example: A college student does not get into a fraternity of his choice. He tells himself that
the fraternity is very exclusive and that a lot of students could not get in
Sublimation - ✔✔the ego replaces an unacceptable impulse with an acceptable one
example: A man with strong sexual urges becomes an artist who paints nudes.
Reaction Formation - ✔✔the ego transforms an unacceptable motive into an acceptable one
example: A woman who fears her sexual urges becomes a religious zealot
Denial - ✔✔the ego refuses to acknowledge anxiety-producing realities
example: A man won't acknowledge that he has cancer even though a team of doctors
has diagnosed his cancer
Regression - ✔✔the ego seeks the security of an earlier developmental period in the face
of stress
example: A woman returns home to her mother every time her and her husband have a big
argument
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