1. 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

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
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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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).

12. 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