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Defense mechanisms

Defense mechanisms are unconscious approaches to scenarios that enable us to handle a given
circumstance. They are psychological, and are first mentioned as part of Sigmund Freud's
theories.
According to George Eman Valliant's theories however, developed and revealed in 1977, defense
mechanisms can be grouped into four different levels: Pathological being the first, followed by
immature and then neurotic, finishing finally with mature.
Robert Plutchik's theory on defense mechanisms of 1979 is quite different; he says that the
defenses are derived from the standard straightforward emotions such as happiness, sadness and
anger, and are denial, regression, projection, formation, repression, intellectualization,
compensation and displacement.

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