The History and Scope of Psychology Module 1

289

Defense Mechanisms

Ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

1. Repression banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.

2. Regression leads an individual faced with anxiety to retreat to a more infantile psychosexual stage.


	OBJECTIVE 44-6\| Describe the function of defense mechanisms, and identify six of them.