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Hey, hello students, hope you all are fine and doing well at your desire places.
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So today we are going to know about defense mechanisms.
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So defense mechanisms are psychological strategies that are unconscious used to protect a person from any kind of anxiety, guilt, right, that are arising from unacceptable thoughts, right arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings okay some of the defense mechanisms are is below that we call them is that is denial right repression displacement all right we call it regression okay sublimation and projection, okay, reaction formation, information, idealization, okay.
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So let's discuss them one by one.
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If we talk about denial, denial was proposed by anna freud, which involves refusal to accept reality.
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She called it as blocking external events from awareness right so i must say it is a refusal to refusal to accept reality right so for example for example in our environment smokers may refuse to admit themselves that smoking is bad for their health is a kind of denial okay so the another one is repression depression is an unquestion defense mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts to become conscious.
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Or i must say, blocking unpleasant thoughts by pushing them into unconscious.
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It is a thought repression.
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It is a thought reparation.
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So for example, individual block their traumatic events such as childhood abuse or a kind of lossing of their loved ones right are something else that that make them anxious or aggressive right so they just repress their thoughts in their unconscious okay there is another one which we called as a displacement okay a displacement is satisfying an impulse with a substitute object, right? satisfying impulse or aggression with any object...