Freudian Defense Mechanisms

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Freudian Defense Mechanisms

• OR How do I release my unconscious anxiety?

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Repression

• The ejection of anxiety- evoking ideas from
  awareness.

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Suppression

• Conscious Repression
• Ex I will do this work later

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Rationalization( Intellectualization)

• The use of self deceiving justifications for
  unacceptable behavior

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Displacement

• The transfer of impulses from threatening to less
  threatening objects.
• Ex A worker picks a fight with his spouse after
  a bad day

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Projection

• Thrusting ones own id impulses onto others so
  that others are assumed to harbor them.
• Ex Hostile Attributional Bias

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Reaction Formation

• Assumption of behaviors opposite of genuine
  impulses to keep impulses repressed.
• Ex Being overly nice to those you dislike

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Denial

• Refusal to accept the true nature of a threat
• Ex If I smoke I wont get cancer because.

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Sublimation

• The channeling of primitive impulses into
  positive , constructive efforts.
• Ex A hostile person who becomes a star athlete.

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