1. Do Now: What do you think a defense mechanism is?
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis
Do Now: What do you think a defense mechanism is?
HW: Personality homework due Thursday, March 17.

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis
Freud's Defense Mechanisms include:
Denial: claiming/believing that what is true to be actually false.
Displacement: redirecting emotions to a substitute target.
Intellectualization: taking an objective viewpoint.
Projection: attributing uncomfortable feelings to others.
Rationalization: creating false but credible justifications.
Reaction Formation: overacting in the opposite way to the fear.
Regression: going back to acting as a child.
Repression: pushing uncomfortable thoughts into the subconscious.
Sublimation: redirecting 'wrong' urges into socially acceptable actions.

5. Aim: Students will be able to understand the role of defense mechanisms in psychoanalysis
Activity
Directions: For a maximum score of 7.5/10, read and annotate this document and then provide definitions for the terms listed below.
Part 2: Completing this section could earn you a maximum score of 8.5/10 for the day
Identify which defense mechanism is being used in the scenario provided for each.
Part 3: Completing this section could earn you a maximum of 10/10 for the day.
Create a comic strip that demonstrates one of the Defense Mechanisms in the boxes below.