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Ego & defense mechanism

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The document discusses ego defense mechanisms, which are unconscious psychological strategies used to cope with reality and maintain self-image. Defense mechanisms can protect the mind from anxiety and help resolve mental conflicts. They are adaptive in small amounts but can become maladaptive and break down personality if overused. Adaptive defenses include repression, rationalization, intellectualization, compensation, sublimation, substitution, and displacement. Maladaptive defenses include denial, isolation, suppression, regression, reaction formation, and projection. The document provides definitions of specific defense mechanisms.

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Alok Kumar Sahoo M.Sc Nursing
ï‚—Defense mechanisms are defined as unconscious psychological strategies brought into play by various entities to cope with reality and to maintain self-image.
ï‚—Purpose of the Ego Defense Mechanisms is to protect the mind/self/ego from anxiety ï‚—They may also to be used to resolve mental conflict to reduce anxiety.
ï‚—They can be helpful when used in very small doses and if overuses become ineffective and can lead to a breakdown of the personality .
Defense Mechanism Adaptive defense mechanism Maladaptive defense mechanism
Adaptive Defence mechanism Maladptive Defence Mechanism ï‚— Repression ï‚— Rationalization ï‚— Intellectualization ï‚— Compensation ï‚— Sublimation ï‚— Substitution ï‚— Displacement ï‚— Denial ï‚— Isolation ï‚— Suppression ï‚— Regression ï‚— Reaction formation ï‚— Projection ï‚— Conversion ï‚— Dissociation ï‚— undoing
Defence Mechanism Definiton Compensation overachievement in one area to make up for deficiency in another Rationalism Justifying one’s ideas or behavior Projection Attributing one’s own undesirable thoughts, impulses or feeling to others Displacement Releasing one’s pent-up feelings on a less threatening object Identification Increasing one’s feelings of worth by identifying or modeling oneself on people who are respected or influential Repression Unconscious forgetting of painful ideas, events and conflicts Regression Reverting to an earlier level of development Fantasy Withdrawing to a make – believe world through daydreaming Denial Refusal to accept the reality of a threatening situation in spite of real evidence Withdrawal Removing oneself from situations that are embracing or painful reaction formation Behaving in a way that is very opposite of one’s real feeling/ motives
Intellectualisa tion Using logical explanations without feelings or an affective component Negativism Becoming incooperative and doing the opposite of what should be done
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  • 2. ï‚—Defense mechanisms are defined as unconscious psychological strategies brought into play by various entities to cope with reality and to maintain self-image.
  • 3. ï‚—Purpose of the Ego Defense Mechanisms is to protect the mind/self/ego from anxiety ï‚—They may also to be used to resolve mental conflict to reduce anxiety.
  • 4. ï‚—They can be helpful when used in very small doses and if overuses become ineffective and can lead to a breakdown of the personality .
  • 6. Adaptive Defence mechanism Maladptive Defence Mechanism ï‚— Repression ï‚— Rationalization ï‚— Intellectualization ï‚— Compensation ï‚— Sublimation ï‚— Substitution ï‚— Displacement ï‚— Denial ï‚— Isolation ï‚— Suppression ï‚— Regression ï‚— Reaction formation ï‚— Projection ï‚— Conversion ï‚— Dissociation ï‚— undoing
  • 7. Defence Mechanism Definiton Compensation overachievement in one area to make up for deficiency in another Rationalism Justifying one’s ideas or behavior Projection Attributing one’s own undesirable thoughts, impulses or feeling to others Displacement Releasing one’s pent-up feelings on a less threatening object Identification Increasing one’s feelings of worth by identifying or modeling oneself on people who are respected or influential Repression Unconscious forgetting of painful ideas, events and conflicts Regression Reverting to an earlier level of development Fantasy Withdrawing to a make – believe world through daydreaming Denial Refusal to accept the reality of a threatening situation in spite of real evidence Withdrawal Removing oneself from situations that are embracing or painful reaction formation Behaving in a way that is very opposite of one’s real feeling/ motives
  • 8. Intellectualisa tion Using logical explanations without feelings or an affective component Negativism Becoming incooperative and doing the opposite of what should be done