Psychological defenses that can develop are avoidance, and poor self esteem.
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In New York, I'd developed psychological defenses against the desperation I saw in the streets.
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The idea that we need to get rid of rationalization and denial and other [psychological] defenses leaves people helpless.
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The Rajneesh community invites recruits to strip themselves of their psychological defenses in the name of emotional release and personal growth.
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Now we live in a food glut environment, and we have few genetic, cultural, or psychological defenses against this novel threat to our health.
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Healing requires letting go of rigid, maladaptive psychological defenses so that you can be renewed — this requires a softening rather than a hardening so that you can take flight.
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Edith Kramer, an artist, pointed out the importance of the creative process, psychological defenses, and artistic quality, writing that "sublimation is attained when forms are created that successfully contain…anger, anxiety, or pain."Kramer, E. (1971). Art as therapy with children. New York: Schocken Books, p. 219.
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There are two kinds of negative compensation: :Overcompensation, characterized by a superiority goal, leads to striving for power, dominance, self-esteem, and self-devaluation. :Undercompensation, which includes a demand for help, leads to a lack of courage and a fear for life. A well-known example of failing overcompensation is observed in people going through a midlife-crisis. Approaching midlife, many people lack the energy to maintain their psychological defenses, including their compensatory acts.
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Perry, p. 100 The fantasy bond acts as a painkiller that cuts off feeling responses and interferes with the development of a true sense of self, and the more a person comes to rely on fantasies of connection, the less they will seek or be able to accept love and affection in a real relationship.Robert Firestone, Joyce Catlett "The Fantasy Bond: Structure of Psychological Defenses" (1987) p. 327 The fantasy bond is the primary defense against separation anxiety, interpersonal pain, and existential dread.
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McDougall (1989), pp. 93, 103 For McDougall, the disaffected individual had at some point "experienced overwhelming emotion that threatened to attack their sense of integrity and identity", to which they applied psychological defenses to pulverize and eject all emotional representations from consciousness.McDougall (1989), pp. 93–94 A similar line of interpretation has been taken up using the methods of phenomenology. McDougall has also noted that all infants are born unable to identify, organize, and speak about their emotional experiences (the word infans is from the Latin "not speaking"), and are "by reason of their immaturity inevitably alexithymic".McDougall (1985), p.
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Creative Arts Therapies Manual: A Guide to the History, Theoretical Approaches, Assessment, and Work with Special Populations of Art, Play, Dance, Music, Drama, and Poetry Therapies. Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, LTD It includes a profile of temperament, learning styles, use of psychological defenses, cognitive patterns and ways of coping in space weight and time. System II diagrams consist of movements that provide the structure and shape for System I qualities. For example, if someone prefers to focus direct attention when they are studying or interacting with others, an enclosing gesture helps focus that direct attention.
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