Dr. Molon Psychological Defenses 2w5q1x

PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSES GENESIS OF DEFENSE MECHANISMS During the early developmental stage, the DEFENSES emerge as a precipitate of the EGO’s struggle to mediate between pressures of the ID and the confines and requirements of outside reality. At each phase of libidinal development, the associated drive components arouse characteristic ego defenses. The kinds of defences characteristically employed by a person to deal with stressful situations contribute to the person’s character. These defences are used by everybody in varying degree and combinations, depending on the circumstances one may encounter. Defenses in themselves, are not pathological. They serve an important

function in maintaining normal psychological well being. Psychopathology may arise as a consequence of one or several possible alterations of normal defensive functioning.

DEFENSES PARALELLS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PSYCHOS DEFENSES AGE EXUAL STAGE BIRT H ORAL PROJECTIO N 1 -DENIAL YEA DISPLACEM R ENT -TURNING AGAINST SELF 2 ANAL IDENTIFICA YEA TION RS -UNDOING

DANGER SITUATIO LOSS OF OBJECT

LOSS OF OBJECT’S

-REACTION FORMATIO N -ISOLATION REGRESSIO N 3-5 PHALLIC YEA RS 6 YS

LATENCY

7 YS

LOVE

INTELLECTUAL FEAR OF IZATION CASTRATION/

GENITAL DAMAGE REGRESSION FEAR OF SYMBOLIZAT SUPEREGO ION PUNISHMENT DISAPPROVAL / SUBLIMATIO GUILT N

CLASSIFICATION OF DEFENSE MECHANISM 1. NARCISSISTIC DEFENSES- MOST PRIMITIVE, APPEAR IN CHILDREN AND PSYCHOTICALLY DISTURBED. DEFENS E

DEFINITION

EXAMPLE

DENIAL

DISTORTIO N

PROJECTIO N

REFUSING BE TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT ONE SEES OR HEARS AND NEGATING THE EXPERIENCE -CAN BE NORMAL OR PATHOLOGICAL EXTERNAL REALITY IS GROSSLY RESHAPED TO SATISFY INNER NEEDS AND USING SUSTAINED FEELINGS OF DELUSIONAL SUPERIORITY PERSON ATTRIBUTES OWN FEELINGS AND WISHES TO ANOTHER PERSON BECAUSE OF INTOLERABLE INNER FEELINGS. IN PSYCHOSIS, DELUSIONS ABOUT EXTERNAL REALITY

A THIEF CAUGHT IN THE ACT DENYING THE ACT OF STEALING HALLUCINATION S, DELUSIONS, UNREALISTIC BELIEFS

A PERSON WHO SEEMS TO HAVE SOME ANGER WITH ANOTHER ONE, TEND TO PUT THE BLAME ON SAID PERSON FOR WHATEVER MISGIVINGS HE SUFFERS.

2. IMMATURE DEFENSES- SEEN IN ADOLESCENTS AND SOME NONPSYCHOTIC DEFENSE DEFINITION

EXAMPLES

S ACTING OUT

INDIVIDUAL EXPRESSES UNCONSCIOUS WISH OR IMPULSE THRU ACTIONS TO AVOID BEING CONSCIOUS OF THE ACCOMPANYING AFFECT BLOCKING TEMPORARY OR TRANSIENT INHIBITION OF THINKING OCCUR. TENSION ARISES WHEN THE IMPULSE, AFFECT OR THOUGHT IS INHIBITED HYPOCJODRIASI REPROACH ARISING S FROM BEREAVEMENT, LONELINESS OR UNACCEPTABLE AGGRESSIVE IMPULSES TOWARD OTHERS I TRANSFORMED INTO SELF-REPROACH AND COMPLAINS OF PAIN, SOMATIC ILLNESS AND NEURATHENIA. AN ILLNESS MAY ALSO BE EXAGERATED FOR PURPOSE OF EVASION OR REGRESSION INTROJECTIO INVOLVES THE N INTERNALIZATION THE QUALITIES OF AN OBJECT, AND WHEN USED AS A DEFENSE IT CAN OBLITERATE THE

REBELLIOUS TEEN AGER ALWAYS DISAGGREEING WITH HIS PARENTS BECAUSE HE FEELS HE IS NOT LOVED BY THEM MENTAL BLOCK DURING EXAMINATION AS A RESULT OF POOR PREPARATION OF SAID EXAMS OR

MALINGERING AN ILLNESS IN ORDER NOT TO BE GIVEN A BIGGER RESPONSIBILITY IN A PROJECT WHICH INTAILS OF OVERTIME.

IDENTIFICATION WITH AN AGGRESSOR- A CHILD PLAYING A DOCTOR JUST AFTER HER

DISTINCTION IMMUNUZATION BETWEEN THE OBJECT AND THE SUBJECT IVEAGGRESSION FAILURES AND AGGRESSIVE TOWARDS OTHERS IS PROCRASTINATION BEHAVIOR EXPRESSED S INDIRECTLY THRU IVITY, MASOCHISM AND TURNING AGAINST SELF PROJECTION MISATTRIBUTING OR SEVERE PREJUDICE, MISUNDERSTANDING REJECTION OF MOTIVES, ATTITUDES, INTIMACY THRU FEELINGS OR HYPERVIGILANCE INTENTIONS OF TO EXTERNAL OTHERS DANGER REGRESSION PERSON ATTEMPTS TO WAKING UP VERY RETURN TO AN LATE AFTER THE EARLIER LIBIDINAL FINALS PHASE TO AVOID TENSION AND CONFLICT EVOKED AT THE PRESENT LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT SCHIZOID PERSON INDULGES IN DAY DREAMING FANTASY AUTISTIC RETREAT IN ORDER TO RESOLVE CONFLICT AND TO OBTAIN GRATIFICATION. THE INDIVIDUAL DOES NOT FULLY BELIEVE IN OR INSIST ON ACTING OUT THE FANTASY SOMATIZATION PSYCHIC DERIVATIVES ARE STRESSED FROM WORKCONVERTED INTO BODILY COMPLAINS OF BODY

SYMPTOMS AND THERE IS

PAINS

TO AVOID TENDENCY TO REACT WITH ADDITIONAL LOADS SOMATIC RATHER THAN PSYCHIC MANIFESTATIONS

3. NEUROTIC DEFENSES- SEEN INADULTS UNDER STRESS AND PEOPLE WITH NEUROSIS

DEFENSES

DEFINITION

EXAMPLE

DISPLACEMENT

AN EMOTION FROM ONE IDEA OR OBJECT IS SHIFTED TO ANOTHER THAT RESEMBLES THE ORIGINAL IN SOME ASPECT OR QUALITY

DISSOCIATION

A TEMPORARY BUT DRASTIC M ODIFICATION OF A PERSON’S CHARACTERISTIC OR OF ONE’S SENSE OF PERSONAL IDENTITY TAKES PLACE TO AVOID EMOTIONAL

A STUDENT GETTING HIS TEST PAPERS WITH LOW MARKS, IMMEDIATELY AGNRILY BERATED HIS INSTRUCTOR AS HE WAS TEARING IT. HYSTERICAL CONVERSION REACTION AMONG TEENAGERS AFTER A LOVER’S QUAREL

INTELLECTUALIZA TION

ISOLATION

RATIONALIZATION

REACTION FORMATION

REPRESSION

DISTRESS EXCESSIVE USE OF INTELLECTUAL PROCESSES TO AVOID AFFECTIVE EXPRESSION OR EXPERIENCE SPLITTING OR SEPARATION OF AN IDEA FROM THE AFFECT THAT ACCOMPANIES IT BUT IS REPRESSED RATIONAL EXPLANATION ARE OFFERED BY AN INDIVIDUAL IN AN ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY ATTITUDES, BELIEFS OR BEHAVIOR THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE BE UNACCEPTABLE AN UNACCEPTABLE IMPULSE IS TRANSFORMED INTO ITS OPPOSITE

CONSCIOUS PERCEPTION OF INSTINCT AND FEELINGS ARE BLOCKED

USE OF REFERENCES AND QUOTATIONS FROM AUTHORS TO PROVE ONE’S POINT OF VIEW HAPPY FACES OF CLOWNS, EVEN IF THE IMPERSONATORS HAVE PROBLEMS CITING THEORIES OR PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLANATIONS OR CULTURAL BELIEFS AS REASONS FOR HIS BEING DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS A TEAM MATE HAVING REALIZED THAT HIS LEADER WAS RIGHT, INVITED HIM TO SNACK AND APOLOGIZED FOR HIS ARGUMENTS EARLIER. A FRIEND REFUSES TO DISCUSS WITH HER PARENTS THE REAL REASON FOR HER RECENT BREAK UP.

SEXUALIZATION

AN OBJECT IS ENDOWED WITH SEXUAL SIGNIFICANCE THAT IT DID NOT PREVIOUSLY HAVE

SENTIMENTAL VALUES ATTACHED TO GIFTS

4. MATURE DEFENSES- USED BY NORMAL PSYCHOLOGICALLY STABLE AND MATURE ADULTS DEFENSE DEFINITION S

EXAMPLE

ALTRUISM

-ROBINHOOD

ANTICIPATION

HUMOR

INDIVIDUAL UNDERGOES A VICARIOUS EXPERIENCE BY MEANS OF CONSTRUCTIVE AND INSTINTUALLY GRATIFYING SERVICES TO OTHERS PLANNING FOR FUTURE INNER DISCOMFORT THAT WHICH IS GOAL ORIENTED PERMITS THE OVERT EXPRESSION OF FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS WITHOUT PERSONAL DISCOMFORT OR IMMOBILIZATION AND DOES NOT PRODUCE UNPLEASANT EFFECT ON OTHERS

STEALING FROM THE RICH AND GIVING THE LOOT TO THE POOR

ALL PREPARATIONS BEING DONE BY A BEAUTY CONTESTANT FOR THE BIG EVENT LAUGHING AT ONE’S MISTAKE TO AVOID EMBARASSMENT

SUBLIMATION

SUPPRESSION

FEELINGS ARE ACKNOWLEDGED, MODIFIED AND DIRECTED TOWARD A SIGNIFICANT OBJE CT OR GOAL AND MODEST INSTINCTUAL SATISFACTION OCCURS ISSUES MAYBE DELIBERATELY CUT OFF BUT THEY ARE NOT AVOIDED. DISCOMFORT IS ACKNWLEDGED BUT MINIMIZED

FRUSTRATED ARTIST HELPS MAKE THE MURALS ON THE FENCE OF THE SCHOOL IN THE BARANGAY A JILTED GIRLFREIND ITTED HER BREAKING UP AMONG HER BARKADA BUT REFUSES TO EXPLAIN ABOUT THE THIRD PARTY ISSUE.