Which one of these constitute a part of mature ego defense mechanism?
Correct Answer C:
Defense Mechanisms:
Level 1: Psychotic Defenses - common in psychosis; normally seen throughout childhood and in dreams:
Level 2: Immature Defenses - common in personality disorders, severe depression; normally seen throughout adolescence:
Level 3: Neurotic Defenses - common in adults:
Level 4: Mature Defenses - common in emotionally healthy adults:
A teenage boy is very aggressive, angry and always getting in fights. Through the help of his teachers and counselors he decides to join the wrestling team and within a few months is one of the best wrestlers on his high school team.
This is an example of which defense mechanism?
Correct Answer A:
In Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, defense mechanisms are psychological strategies used by individuals to cope with reality and to maintain self-image.
There are numerous defense mechanisms here are explanations of the above 4 choices:
Which of the following defense mechanisms is used in borderline personality disorder?
Splitting, is a way to divide the world in "all good" "all bad". It is a black and white way to see the world without "grey". Splitting is one of the defense mechanism used.
Black-or-white, all-or-nothing perceptions or thinking, in which people are divided into all-good idealized saviors or all bad evildoers.
Such patients will avoid the discomfort of feeling ambivalent (ie, having loving and angry feelings for the same person) uncertainty and helplessness. This defense mechanism is typical of borderline personality disorder.
Which of the following defense mechanisms is the most mature psychological strategy to cope with a reality?
Correct Answer B:
Defense mechanisms are our way of distancing ourselves from a full awareness of unpleasant thoughts, feelings and desires. The mature defenses are defined by a healthy and conscious relationship with reality (ie. suppression, sublimation, altruism, anticipation, distraction). Immature defenses include: acting out, blocking, projection, regression, somatization.
Sublimation (choice B) is a defense mechanism that allows us to act out unacceptable impulses by converting these behaviors into a more acceptable form. For example, a person experiencing extreme anger might take up kick boxing as a means of venting frustration.
→ Projection (choice A) is the attribution of one's undesired impulses onto another. For example, a jealous man accuses his wife of cheating.
→ Regression (choice C) is the reversion to an earlier stage of development in the face of unacceptable impulses. For an example an adolescent who is overwhelmed with fear, anger and growing sexual impulses might become clinging and begin thumb sucking or bed wetting.
→ Displacement (choice D) is the redirecting of thoughts feelings and impulses from an object that gives rise to anxiety to a safer, more acceptable one. Being angry at the boss and kicking the dog can be an example of displacement.
The basic mechanism of defense in phobic reactions is:
Avoidance is a defense mechanism consisting of refusal to encounter situations, objects, or activities because they represent unconscious sexual or aggressive impulses and/or punishment for those impulses; avoidance, according to the dynamic theory, is a major defense mechanism in phobias.
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