DEFENCE MECHANISM VS THEIR DESCRIPTION AND EXAMPLE

 DEFENCE MECHANISM VS THEIR DESCRIPTION AND EXAMPLE

1. REPRESSION -

Unconscious and involuntary forgetting of painful ideas, events and conflict

Example - Forgetting a loved one's birthday after fight

2.DENIAL

Unconscious refusal to refuse an unacceptable ideas or behaviour

Example -

 a husband may refuse to recognise obvious signs of his wife's infidelity

3.DISPLACEMENT -

Unconsciously discharging pent up feeling to a less threatening object

Example -

getting angry at your child or spouse because you had a bad day at work

4.REACTION FORMATION - 

Replacing unacceptable feelings with their exact opposite 

Example - 

treating someone you strongly dislike in an excessively friendly manner in order to hide your true feelings.

5.RATIONALIZATION - 

IT is a process in which an individual justifies his failures and socially unacceptable behaviour by giving socially approved reasons

Example - 

A student might blame a poor exam score on the instructor rather than their own lack of preparation.

6.SUBLIMATION - 

Consciously or Unconsciously channeling instinctual drives to acceptable activities 

Example - 

You feel an urge to be unfaithful to your partner. Rather than act on these unacceptable urges, you channel your feelings into doing projects around the yard.

7.COMPENSATION - 

Consciously covering up for a weakness by over emphasizing or making up a desirable trait 

Example - individuals with poor family lives may direct their energy into excelling above and beyond what is required at work.

8.PROJECTION - 

Unconsciously or Consciously blaming someone else for one's difficulty 

Example - 

if you have a strong dislike for someone, you might instead believe that they do not like you.

9.INTELLECTUALIZATION - 

Separation of emotion of a painful events or situation from fact involved, Acknowledging the facts not the emotions

Example - if person A is rude to person B, person B may think about the possible reasons for person A's behavior. They may rationalize that person A was having a stressful day.

10.UNDOING - 

Consciously doing something to counteract or to make up for a transgression or wrong doing 

Example - 

after thinking about being violent with someone, one would then be overly nice or accommodating to them

11.REGRESSION - 

Unconscious return to an earlier and more comfortable developmental level 

Example - 

an individual fixated at an earlier developmental stage might cry or sulk upon hearing unpleasant news

12.DISSOCIATION 

The Unconscious separation of painful feelings and emotion from an unacceptable ideas, object or situations 

Example - 

A woman finds herself engaging in bulimic eating behaviors in a subconscious attempt to escape feelings of shame and self-loathing. A man who is unhappy in his career struggles to concentrate at work.

13.CONVERSION 

The Unconscious expression of intrapsychic conflict symbolically through physical symptom 

Example - 

A student awakens with the migraine headache in the morning of a final examination and feels too ill to take the rest