Defence mechanisms
- Created by: CharlotteCollins4
- Created on: 15-05-15 23:39
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- Defence mechanisms
- The role of these memories is to help the ego keep peace between the id and the superego
- Repression
- Where thoughts are kept in the unconscious and are not allowed to pass into the conscious mind
- As if that thought had been forgotten
- Motivated forgetting
- E.g if a person witnesses a car crash but after the event cannot recall it
- They do not deny that it happened they just simply cannot remember it
- Denial
- Where a person acts like the event has never happened
- This protects them from unhappy and unwanted thoughts
- Projection
- Rather than accepting that you are feeling a certain thing yourself you act like it is another person that is feeling this way
- E.g if you have cheated on someone you may accuse your parter of cheating
- Displacement
- Turning unacceptable thoughts or feelings into acceptable
- E.g converting anger towards a friend or sibling into acceptable aggression whilst playing a sport
- Regression
- When, to cope with something stressful, a person reverts back to childhood behaviour
- E.g throwing a tantrum or sucking your thumb when you are stressed
- Evaluation
- There is validity in the concept as we can see real life examples of them in everyday life
- Defence mechanism theory has good applications as once told about defence mechanisms, people often feel better
- E.g Anna O who had a phobia of drinking out of glasses due to once seeing a dog lick a glass. Once Freud told her about defence mechanisms she could recall the memory and was able to drink from a glass
- Defence mechanisms are difficult to test scientifically
- They are unmeasurable
- They require interpretation
- There may be subjectivity
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