1. Baraa
Hind Nasser
Jumana
Nareeman Khan
Rym Azzi
Sadia Furhad
Shaista Mirwais

2. Are unconscious mental techniques used by the ego to
keep conflicts out of consciousness, thus decreasing
anxiety and maintaining the individual’s sense of
safety, equilibrium, and self-esteem.
• All defenses are unconscious
• Defenses change over time
• Defenses are adaptive as well as pathologic
• Psychopathology – issue of intensity and extent

3. Defense
Mechanisms
Narcissitic Immature Anxiety Mature
Denial Blocking Displacement Humor
Projection Regression Repression Sublimation
Splitting Somatization Isolation of affect Suppression
Identification Acting out
Rationalization
Reaction formation
Undoing
Passive aggressive
Dissociation

4. • Projection
• Denial
• Splitting

5. Denial is the refusal
to accept reality or
fact, acting as if a
painful event,
thought or feeling did
not exist

6. person attributes his or
her own wishes, desires,
thoughts, or emotions
to someone else.
Internal states are
perceived as a part of
someone else or of the
world in general.

7. • aka all or nothing thinking, it can be the splitting of
mind and mental state
• in this case patient thinks in black or white forms, it’s
either positive or negative, good or bad, it can even
be splitting of the ego when the patient is
existentially insecure.

8. • Blocking
• Regression
• Somatization
• Identification

9. Temporary or transient block in
thinking, or an inability to remember
During Exam After Exam
OMG!! I I just
can’t remembered
remember the answer
question 7’s to question 7
answer

10. Regression involves taking the position of a child in some problematic
situation, rather than acting in a more adult way.
Can be simple and harmless, like a person sucking a pen, or may be more
dysfunctional as crying or using moody arguments.

11. • Psychic derivatives are
converted into bodily
symptoms. Feelings are
manifest as physical
symptoms rather than
psychological distress.

12. Unconsciously patterning one’s
behavior after that of someone who is
more powerful

13. • Displacement
• Repression
• Isolation of affect
• Acting out
• Rationalization
• Reaction formation
• Undoing
• Passive aggressive
• Dissociation

14. redirecting of thoughts feelings and impulses directed at one
person or object, but taken out upon another person or object.

15. • Repression is the
unconscious
blocking of
unacceptable
thoughts, feelings
and impulses.

16. Painful, troublesome, frightening feelings are removed
from thoughts forced from conscious awareness
Split between thoughts
and feelings.

17. • Acting out is performing an extreme behavior
in order to express thoughts or feelings the
person feels incapable of otherwise
expressing.

18. • Rationalization is putting something into a
different light or offering a different
explanation for one’s perceptions or behaviors
in the face of a changing reality.

19. • Reaction Formation is the
converting of unwanted or
dangerous thoughts, feelings
or impulses into their
opposites.

20. Attempt to take back an unconscious behavior or thought that is
unacceptable or hurtful.
By “undoing” the previous
action, the person is attempting
to counteract the damage done by
the original comment, hoping the two will balance one another
out.

21. Non-verbal aggression that manifests in negative behavior.
It is when you are angry with someone but do not/ cannot
tell them.
It can either be covert (concealed and hidden) or overt
(blatant and obvious).

22. • Separates self from one’s experience. Third person rather
than first person experience. Facts of an event are acceptable,
but the person is protected from the full impact of the
experience.

23. • Humor
• Sublimation
• Suppression

24. Expression of feeling without causing
discomfort
It’s okay if I lost a leg at
least I can dress up like a
pirate now
hahahahahhahahahahaha

25. the channeling of unacceptable impulses,
thoughts and emotions into more acceptable
ones
Humor Action Fantasy

26. • conscious decision to
postpone attention to
an impulse or conflict.
Conscious set-up and
unconscious follow
through. The
suppressed content
temporarily resides in
the unconscious.

28. • Rocky Balboa often experiences intense feelings of
anger and frustration. In order to cope with these
feeling, he enrolls in a boxing class as an outlet for
his emotions. Rocky's actions are an example of
which type of defense mechanism?
Sublimation
Projection
Displacement
Repression

29. • Eric Cartman complains about his job duties at work,
rarely completes assigned tasks, and is regularly late
for work. When he’s is fired, he claims it was due to
his co-worker Kyle badmouthing him instead of
blaming it on his own poor work performance.
Which defense mechanism explains Cartman's
reaction?
Displacement
Denial
Rationalization
Sublimation

30. • Betul dislikes public speaking. She stops going to
school, changes jobs, and declines most social
engagements to ensure that she does not have to
speak in public. Betul's behavior is an example of
which defense mechanism?
Denial
Avoidance
Sublimation
Passive-aggression

31. • Gregory House's friends and family believe that
he has a drug addiction problem. When House is
confronted by his loved ones, he claims that his
drug taking is not problematic. What type of
defense mechanism is House's response?
Repression
Rationalization
Denial
Displacement

32. • Red Forman has an argument with his boss,
but remains calm while at work. When he gets
home that evening, he yells at his wife and
son Eric. Which defense mechanism is Red
displaying?
Rationalization
Denial
Reaction formation
Displacement

33. • NOT A DEFENSE
MECHANISM
• The unconscious
transfer of feelings
and/or thoughts
between individuals

34. Thank you!