Ego Defense Mechanisms
Ego Defense Mechanisms-
1.Repression
Subconsciously Forgetting unpleasant desires,
feelings.
e.g. A person forgets abuse in child.
2.
Suppresion
Consciously forgetting unpleasant desires,
feelings.
e.g.
Parents want to forget death of their child.
3. Regression
In stress situations behaving like child.
e.g. A grown child starts Bedwetting or
Thumb-sucking
e.g. Angry Milkha singh becomes sportsman.
e.g. A boy speaks like Sunny Deol.
7.
Rationalization
Giving excuses.
e.g. A student who fails, says syllabus was
not completed.
8.
Projection
Projection of one's feeling to someone
else.
e.g. Someone who is cheating, say that his/
her partner is cheating.
9. Displacement
Redirecting feelings/ emotions from
Original subject to less dangerous subject.
e.g. A person who had a bad day in office,
scolds wife for no reason.
10. Denial
Not accepting stressful events.
e.g. A person who lost someone in
accidents, do not accept this.
11.
Compensation
Improving values in other field.
e.g. A student who is weak in studies but
he is good in sports.
12.
Withdrawal
Pulling away from reality.
e.g. A person who is afraid of getting failed,
does not participate in dance competition.
13.
Reaction Formation
Behaving opposite of what you feel.
e.g. A person who does not like his colleague
, but behaves very friendly with him.
14.
Intellectualization
High level thinking where person behaves
in a cold/ clinical way to avoid stress,
e.g. A person who diagnosed with cancer,
learns about the disease process to
avoid stress.
15.
Humor
In Condition of stress a person laughs to avoid anxiety or stress.
