Question
George feels that his younger son, Gary, is unattractive and not very smart. He accuses his wife of picking on Gary and favoring their other son. Sixteen-year-old Tom had started using drugs and the changes in his behavior made it pretty obvious, but Tom's parents didn't believe the school principal when she called to talk with them about the problem Patricia dresses in provocative clothes and uses suggestive language although she fears that she is unattractive and she really isn't very interested in sex. Brenda was homesick and anxious when she moved into the dormitory and started her first year in college. She began to sleep with her old teddy bear again because it made her feel better Jason frequently visits adult bookstores, explaining that he wants to see the type of perverts who buy the porno trash they sell. Jack has had a really hard day at the office. He is particularly angry at his boss, Carlotta, because he found out today that he had been passed over for a promotion. When Jack gets home, his wife, Joellen, asks him what he would like for dinner and he yells at her for "bothering him with stupid questions".
Explanation / Answer
There are several mechanisms of Defense-Freudian Psychodynamic theory such as repression, it is when one inhibit a threatening idea, memory, or emotion from consciousness, projection means allocating one’s own unacceptable feelings and impulses on others. Similarly, displacement where one direct emotion, like anger, toward things, animals, or other people that are not the real object. Similarly, Sublimation, Reaction formation, Regression, Denial
The defense mechanism used for the following are:
1. Projection
2.Denial
3. reaction formation
4. regression
5.. projection
6. displacement
