Defense Mechanisms | How We Manage Anxiety (and Get Stuck)

Defense Mechanisms in psychology are our inbuilt anxiety management system. Denial, projection, repression, intellectualization, shield us from anxiety and protect our self-esteem. But while they are certainly useful to keep us functioning in our everyday life, defense mechanisms can get in the way of us thriving in our life. Because defense mechanisms use distortions, they always involve some form of self-deception - and can therefore keep us stuck in never facing important uncomfortable emotions or memories. Freud and the entire psychodynamic tradition studied defense mechanisms intensely and in this video I want to share some of their basic insights with you.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 The What, Why, and How of Defense Mechanisms
03:47 Primary vs. Secondary Defenses
04:09 Primary Defense Mechanisms
04:42 Denial
05:17 Omnipotent Control
06:28 Idealization and Devaluation
07:48 Projection
08:24 Projective Identification
09:14 Somatization
09:44 Secondary Defense Mechanisms
09:58 Repression
10:43 Isolation of Affect + Compartmentalization
11:52 Rationalization + Intellectualization + Moralization
13:34 Displacement
14:08 Reaction Formation
14:57 Sublimation
15:59 Conclusion

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