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Topic:
How We Defend Ourselves
Defense mechanisms are part of our personality. Defense mechanisms
are ways we use to preserve our self-esteem. Defense mechanisms work
through mental adjustments we make in our environment. Defense
mechanisms help us escape recognition of personal qualities or motives
which might lower our self-esteem or heighten our anxiety.
In more laymen's terms, our defense mechanisms:
A. Distort reality in one way or another
B. Are self-deceptive
Defense mechanisms are used by normal people in everyday behavior.
They are helpful towards adjustment if used appropriately and in
moderation. Maladjustment comes about when defense mechanisms are
dominant modes of problem solving.
Defense mechanisms are generally only labels of ongoing behavior and
do not explain what causes the behavior. The causes of behavior spring
from the needs of the individual exhibiting the behavior. To find a
cause for a behavior we must analyze a person's needs.
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