MedLecturesMadeEasy's video: Defense mechanisms ego defenses

This is a brief video on defense mechanisms (ego defenses) in psychology and psychiatry, including both mature and immature defense mechanisms. I created this presentation with Google Slides. Images were created or taken from Wikimedia Commons I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor. ADDITIONAL TAGS: Defense mechanisms Denial: Refusal to accept external reality because it is too threatening; arguing against an anxiety-provoking stimulus by stating it doesn't exist. Splitting: The defended individual segregates experiences into all-good and all-bad categories, with no room for ambiguity and ambivalence, often in patients with borderline personality disorder. Acting out: Direct expression of an unconscious desire/action, without conscious awareness of the emotion that drives that expressive behavior. Idealization: Tending to perceive another individual as having more desirable qualities than he or she may actually have. Identification: The unconscious modelling of one's self upon another person's (typically contemptible) character and behaviour (ie, abused child becomes child abuser). Passive aggression: Aggression towards others expressed indirectly or passively, often through procrastination. Projection: Attributing one's own unacknowledged unacceptable or unwanted thoughts and emotions to another; reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the undesirable impulses or desires without becoming consciously aware of them. Displacement: defence mechanism that shifts impulses to a more acceptable or less threatening target; redirecting emotion to a safer outlet. Dissociation: Temporary drastic modification of one's personal identity or character to avoid emotional distress; separation or postponement of a feeling that normally would accompany a situation or thought. Intellectualization: Concentrating on the intellectual components of a situation so as to distance oneself from the associated anxiety-provoking emotions; avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects. Isolation: Separation of feelings from ideas and events, for example, describing a murder with graphic details with no emotional response. Rationalization: Convincing oneself that no wrong has been done and that all is or was all right through faulty and false reasoning. An indicator of this defence mechanism can be seen socially as the formulation of convenient excuses. Reaction formation: Converting unconscious wishes or impulses that are perceived to be dangerous or unacceptable into their opposites; behaviour that is completely the opposite of what one really wants or feels; taking the opposite belief because the true belief causes anxiety. Regression: Temporary reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development rather than handling unacceptable impulses in a more adult way, for example, using whining as a method of communicating despite already having acquired the ability to maturely speak. Repression: Moving an unappealing desire/memory to the unconscious in the attempt to prevent it from entering consciousness; seemingly unexplainable naivety, memory lapse or lack of awareness of one's own situation and condition. Altruism: Constructive service to others that brings pleasure and personal satisfaction. Humour: Overt expression of ideas and feelings (especially those that are unpleasant to focus on or too terrible to talk about directly) that gives pleasure to others. The thoughts retain a portion of their innate distress, but they are "skirted around" by witticism, for example self-deprecation. Sublimation: Transformation of unhelpful emotions or instincts into healthy actions, behaviours, or emotions, for example, playing a heavy contact sport such as football or rugby can transform aggression into a game. Suppression: The conscious decision to delay paying attention to a thought, emotion, or need in order to cope with the present reality; making it possible later to access uncomfortable or distressing emotions whilst accepting them. Pathological Immature Neurotic Mature "Defence mechanisms," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_mechanisms