HW: Personality HW due on Tuesday, February 23 Friday, February 12 ,2016 Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis Do Now: What is the difference between projective and non projective personality test? HW: Personality HW due on Tuesday, February 23

Psychoanalysis Theory of Personality Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis Theory of Personality Unconscious: Much of what we do and how we act we are unaware of.

Defense Mechanisms Defense Mechanisms reduce/redirect Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis Defense Mechanisms Defense Mechanisms reduce/redirect anxiety by distorting reality

Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis Repression  One step above denial in the generic classification scheme, repression involves simply forgetting something bad. An optimist remembers the past with a rosy glow and constantly repeats mistakes

Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis Denial When you use denial, you simply refuse to accept the truth or reality of a fact or experience. "No, I'm just a social smoker," is a good example

Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis Displacement  Directing one’s emotions especially anger, towards things, animals, or other people that are not the real object of one’s feelings Example: Someone who is frustrated by his or her boss at work may go home and kick the dog

Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis Projection Disguises threatening impulses by attributing them to others. Thus, “He doesn’t trust me may really be “I don’t trust myself” You might hate someone, but your superego tells you that such hatred is unacceptable. You can ‘solve’ the problem by believing that they hate you.

Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis Reaction Formation Process of pushing away threatening impulses by making unacceptable impulses look like their opposites. Example: a person who is angry with a colleague actually ends up being particularly courteous and friendly towards them

Regression Returning to an earlier, comforting form of behavior. Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis Regression Returning to an earlier, comforting form of behavior. Brandon begins to sleep with his favorite childhood stuffed animal.

Rationalization creating false but believable excuses to justify unacceptable behavior Example: A man buys an expensive car and tells people his old car was very unreliable, unsafe, etc

Sublimation Channeling one’s frustration toward a different goal. Sometimes a healthy defense mechanism. Simon starts to learn how to ride jet skis and writing songs (or maybe starts to body build).

Assignment Complete Defense mechanisms worksheet Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis Assignment Complete Defense mechanisms worksheet Then, begin work on your homework packet due on Tuesday, February 23