Topic: How We Defend Ourselves

Defense mechanisms are part of our personality. Defense mechanisms are ways we use to preserve our self-esteem and self-worth. Defense mechanisms work through mental adjustments we make in our environment. Defense mechanisms help us escape recognition of personal qualities or motives which might lower our self-esteem or heighten our anxiety. In more laymen's terms, our defense mechanisms: A. Distort reality in one way or another B. Are self-deceptive and are used by normal people in everyday behavior. They are helpful towards adjustment if used appropriately and in moderation. Maladjustment comes about when defense mechanisms are dominant modes of problem solving. Defense mechanisms are generally only labels of ongoing behavior and do not explain what causes the behavior. The causes of behavior spring from the needs of the individual exhibiting the behavior. To find a cause for a behavior we must analyze a person's needs.

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