The mechanisms of psychological defense are something that we face every day, sometimes without noticing how we are trying to escape from factors negative for our consciousness.
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Many people often use this method of protecting themselves from external negative influences. This way is that we unconsciously try to squeeze out of our thoughts that which bothers us. Simply put, we squeeze out a fact from our consciousness and quickly switch to something else.
Regression
The application of this mechanism forces us to descend to the level of adaptation below and allows us to satisfy base desires.
Projection
This mechanism often works in immature and easily injured people. The essence of this mechanism is that a person observes his, often uncritical, shortcomings in other people, paying excessive attention. In everyday life, we can very often come across this protection mechanism.
Introjection
Introjection is the opposite of projection. This psychological defense is laid at an early stage of personality development and can be activated at the time of mourning, with the loss of a loved one. It consists in the fact that during the formation of personality, a person absorbs the morals and foundations of parents and, using introjection, removes the psychological differences between objects of love and personality.
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Rationalization
This mechanism can be generalized in one word - self-deception. The essence of rationalization is that we can justify our thoughts, actions, feelings, behaviors that contradict acceptable standards. There is always a piece of truth in rationalization, but self-deception prevails many times over.
Intellectualization
With this method of protection, people resort to excessive intellectual analysis of what happened. Often we can meet people who do not solve their problems, but only talk about them.
Compensation
Due to compensation, people tend to unconsciously overcome their feelings and complexes by acquiring status in society. There is acceptable compensation and unacceptable. Acceptable - the blind becomes a great artist, composer or fashion designer, unacceptable - a manifestation of aggression, as compensation for an unattractive appearance or short stature.
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Negation
People immersed in such protection simply do not notice problems, experiences, feelings, thoughts. There is a rejection of reality.
Bias
Hidden fears, worries, experiences, closed in the subconscious in real life, are transferred in the form of aggression to a specific object.
