Defence Mechanisms

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  • Defence Mechanisms
    • Repression
      • When a person has no recollection of a memory
    • Displacement
      • When a person turns their emotions into something else
    • Denial
      • Acting as if something didn't happen to protect them from unhappy or unacceptable thoughts
    • Projection
      • Projecting your thoughts onto someone else
    • Regression
      • Where you are distressed and revert back to child-like behaviour

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