Sigmund

Freud's

DEFENSE MECHANISM
Defense mechanisms are psychological
strategies that are unconsciously used to
protect a person from anxiety arising
from unacceptable thoughts or feelings.
It occurs when you refuse to
accept reality or facts. You DENIAL
block external events or
circumstances from your
mind so that you don’t have
to deal with the emotional An alcoholic fails to
impact. In other words, you acknowledge that he
avoid the painful feelings or is addicted to alcohol.
events.
DISPLACEMENT
You direct strong emotions
and frustrations toward a
person or object that doesn’t
feel threatening. This allows After parental
you to satisfy an impulse to scolding, an older
react, but you don’t risk sister takes her
significant consequences anger out on her
younger brother.
INTROJECTION
Seek acceptance from
others. Takes a
characteristics that belong
to someone else with the
hope of gaining acceptance
from others.
You wish to join a
particular groups that
have a reputation and
you deliberately imitate
their style, mannerisms
and interest in order to be
accepted
PROJECTION
Some thoughts or feelings
you have about another
person may make you
uncomfortable. If
you project those feelings,
you’re misattributing them
to the other person.
You might hate
someone, but your
superego tells you that
such hatred is
unacceptable. You can
solve the problem by
believing that they hate
you.
REACTION FORMULA
Recognize how they feel, but
they choose to behave in the
opposite manner of their
instincts. By using the Teo coworkers fight
reaction formation, the id is all the time because
satisfied while keeping the they are actually
ego in ignorance of the true attracted to one one
motives. another.
REGRESSION
The ego reverts to an earlier
stage of development usually
in response to stressful
situations. Also a form of A husband speaks
retreat, enabling a person to to his wife in a baby
psychologically go back in talk way when
time to a period when the telling her bad
person felt safer. news.
 REPRESSION
Unsavory thoughts, painful
memories, or irrational beliefs
can upset you. Instead of
facing them, you may She nearly lost her
unconsciously choose to hide life but remembers
them in hopes of forgetting none of the details
about them entirely. of the car accident.