EGO DEFENSE MECHANISM :)

- an normal behaviour which operte on an unconcious level and tend to deny or distort reality

- help individual cope with anxiety and prevent the ego from being overhelmed.

- have adaptive value if they dont become a style of life to avoid facing reality.


DEFENSE MECHANISM


- to protect the ego against the painful and threatening impulses arising from the id we distort the reality

- the process that distort the reality for the ego are called defense mechanism.


SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTERS FOR THE THEORY


1) SIGMUD FREUD - gratification
- unconcious mind
- defense mechanism

2) ANNA FREUD - Freud's daughter
- fixation

3) CARL JUNG - archetypes/ collective memory
- collective unconscious mind

4) ALFRED ADLER - birth order
- social inflences
- individual unconscious

5) ERIK ERIKSON - psychosocial development
- beyond childhood to adulthood life cycle

6) KAREN HORNEY - conception of women