PSY 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Falsifiability, Psychotherapy, Cognitive Dissonance
1 May 2017
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Chapter 11: the working of the unconscious mind: defense mechanisms: the techniques the ego uses to contain dangerous thoughts and impulses even actions occasionally leak out. You might think something that seems: parapraxes: defense mechanisms don"t always work. Every forbidden feeling, memory, or impulse has a certain amount of id energy forcing it toward consciousness and behavioral expression. In repression, the ego must oppose that force with an equal amount of its own energy. It is the tactic of attributing to somebody else a impulses by causing a behavior that, at first glance, appears to. )t"s a defense mechanism that protects against unwanted much as to anybody else, you announce, (cid:498))t"s not me who feels (cid:523)or acts(cid:524) that way, it"s him. (cid:499) thought or an impulse that is feared in oneself. To yourself as: rationalization, the most widely used defense mechanism of all.
