Mihin kategoriaan kuuluvia puolustusmekanismeja sinä käytät?

Saisko näistä jokaisesta tavasta vielä esimerkkejä, olisi helpompi hahmottaa.

Suomeksi saatava tieto on aika suppea.

Neurotic

These mechanisms are considered neurotic, but fairly common in adults. Such defences have short-term advantages in coping, but can often cause long-term problems in relationships, work and in enjoying life when used as one's primary style of coping with the world. They include:

Displacement: defence mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses to a more acceptable or less threatening target; redirecting emotion to a safer outlet; separation of emotion from its real object and redirection of the intense emotion toward someone or something that is less offensive or threatening in order to avoid dealing directly with what is frightening or threatening. For example, a parent may yell at their child because they are angry with their spouse.

Dissociation: Temporary drastic modification of one's personal identity or character to avoid emotional distress; separation or postponement of a feeling that normally would accompany a situation or thought.

Intellectualization: A form of isolation; concentrating on the intellectual components of a situation so as to distance oneself from the associated anxiety-provoking emotions; separation of emotion from ideas; thinking about wishes in formal, affectively bland terms and not acting on them; avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects (isolation, rationalization, ritual, undoing, compensation, and magical thinking).

Reaction formation: Converting unconscious wishes or impulses that are perceived to be dangerous or unacceptable into their opposites; behaviour that is completely the opposite of what one really wants or feels; taking the opposite belief because the true belief causes anxiety.

Repression: The process of attempting to repel desires towards pleasurable instincts, caused by a threat of suffering if the desire is satisfied; the desire is moved to the unconscious in the attempt to prevent it from entering consciousness, seemingly unexplainable naivety, memory lapse or lack of awareness of one's own situation and condition; the emotion is conscious, but the idea behind it is absent.

Immature

These mechanisms are often present in adults. These mechanisms lessen distress and anxiety produced by threatening people or by an uncomfortable reality. Excessive use of such defences is seen as socially undesirable, in that they are immature, difficult to deal with and seriously out of touch with reality. These are the so-called "immature" defences and overuse almost always leads to serious problems in a person's ability to cope effectively. These defences are often seen in major depression and personality disorders. They include:

Acting out: Direct expression of an unconscious wish or impulse in action, without conscious awareness of the emotion that drives the expressive behavior.

Hypochondriasis: An excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness.

Passive-aggressive behavior: Indirect expression of hostility

Projection: A primitive form of paranoia. Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the undesirable impulses or desires without becoming consciously aware of them; attributing one's own unacknowledged, unacceptable, or unwanted thoughts and emotions to another; includes severe prejudice and jealousy, hypervigilance to external danger, and "injustice collecting", all with the aim of shifting one's unacceptable thoughts, feelings and impulses onto someone else, such that those same thoughts, feelings, beliefs and motivations are perceived as being possessed by the other.

Mature

These are commonly found among emotionally healthy adults and are considered mature, even though many have their origins in an immature stage of development. They have been adapted through the years in order to optimise success in human society and relationships. The use of these defences enhances pleasure and feelings of control. These defences help to integrate conflicting emotions and thoughts, whilst still remaining effective. Those who use these mechanisms are usually considered virtuous.

Mature defences include:

Altruism: Constructive service to others that brings pleasure and personal satisfaction.

Anticipation: Realistic planning for future discomfort.

Humour: Overt expression of ideas and feelings (especially those that are unpleasant to focus on or too terrible to talk about directly) that gives pleasure to others. The thoughts retain a portion of their innate distress, but they are "skirted around" by witticism, for example self-deprecation.

Sublimation: Transformation of unhelpful emotions or instincts into healthy actions, behaviours, or emotions, for example, playing a heavy contact sport such as football or rugby can transform aggression into a game.

Suppression: The conscious decision to delay paying attention to a thought, emotion, or need in order to cope with the present reality; making it possible later to access uncomfortable or distressing emotions whilst accepting them.

Oi että, ihanaa!

Uusi pätijä palstalla. Luulin ennen Sincciksen olevan kruunamaton kuningatar, mutta erehdyin. 

Kuten huomataan, epäitsekkyys, huumori ja tukahduttaminen on luokiteltu kypsiksi ja terveiksi puolustusmekanismeiksi.

Passiivisagressiivisuus ei sitä ole.

Osittain kaikkea, myönnän olevani lähimpänä lapsellista.

Vierailija kirjoitti:

Oi että, ihanaa!

Uusi pätijä palstalla. Luulin ennen Sincciksen olevan kruunamaton kuningatar, mutta erehdyin. 

Passiivisagressiisuus.

Aihe tuli mieleeni lukiessani kaikkia niitä haukkuja ja sitä vahingoniloa jota lasia päin kävellyt teini sai osakseen.

Käytän kypsymättömiäkin defenssejä ainakin ajoittain (passiivis-aggressiivisuus) mutta pääosin kypsiä: huumori, altruismi, tukahduttaminen.

Itse käytän paljon huumoria ja muunnan sopimattomat tunteet rakentavaksi käytökseksi.

Mutta jos minua pelottaa, voin olla myös neuroottinen.