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Ego
Executive mediator
- moderates the id and superego
- reality
=> unconscious psychological strategies
Superego
internalized ideal
- internal societal and parental standards
- contradicts the id
Id
Executive mediator
- pleasure principle
- leads to selfish and childish behaviour
(Mature Defence)
Suppression
Conscious decision to postpone paying attention to a conscious impulse or conflict
e.g. 'I am angry at my father but i wont tell him'
(Mature Defence)
Sublimation
Indirect or attenuated expression of instincts
e.g 'I beat my father at tennis'
(Mature Defence)
Altruism
Vicarious but instinctual gratifying service to others
e.g. 'I comfort my fathers haters'
(Mature Defence)
Anticipation
Realistic planning for future discomfort
e.g. practising coping skills for future conflicts with my father
(Mature Defence)
Humour
Over expression of ideas and feelings without individual discomfort or unpleasant effects on others
e.g using humour to have fun with my father
Mature Defences (5)
Are convenient to the beholder
- Suppressions
- Sublimation
- Altruism
- Anticipation
- Humour
Immature defences (5)
Harmless to the owner but annoying to others
- projection
- passive aggression
- acting out
- fantasy
- somatization
(Immature defence)
Projection
Attributing unacknowledged feelings to others
e.g 'My father hates me'
(Immature defence)
Passive aggression
Aggression against others expressed indirectly
e.g. I hate myself
(Immature defence)
Acting out
Direct expression of an unconscious with or impulse
e.g. Without reflection, he hits 12 policemen
(Immature defence)
Fantasy
Tendency to engage in outside retreats
e.g he daydreams of killing giants
(Immature defence)
Somatization
The process by which mental and emotional distress becomes physical illness
e.g. becomes sick when has conflict with father
Neurotic defences (5)
Distressing to the owner, insignificant to observers
- Dissociation
- Displacement
- Intellectualization
- Repression
- Reaction formation
(Neurotic defence)
Dissociation
Temporary but drastic modification to own character or sense of personal identity
e.g. he goes for a drink
(Neurotic defence)
Displacement
Redirection of feelings towards a less cared for object than the person/situation which is causing distress
e.g. I hate my fathers dog
(Neurotic defence)
Intellectualization
The idea is in consciousness but the feeling is missing
e.g. i disapprove of my fathers behaviour
(Neurotic defence)
Repression
The feeling is in consciousness but the idea is missing
e.g. I dont know why I am feeling hot and bothered
(Neurotic defence)
Reaction formation
Developing behaviour opposed to an unacceptable instinctual impulse
e.g. I love my father
Psychotic defences
Distortion of reality => crazy