HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

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HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

• Defense Mechanisms

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Defense Mechanisms

• Good way to illustrate that there is a fuzzy line
  between psychologically healthy and unhealthy
  states
• Ways of dealing with unpleasant and stressful
  situations by deceiving oneself
• (if they are used too often it is unhealthy).

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Types of Defense Mechanisms

• Fantasy
• Repression
• Rationalization
• Regression
• Denial
• Sublimation
• Undoing

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FANTASY

• channeling of unacceptable or unattainable
  desires into imagination occasional daydreaming
  is harmless, but if we continually resort to it
  instead of dealing with reality, we will never
  solve our problems or achieve our goals.

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REPRESSION

• process of pushing a painful thought or
  experience into our unconscious mind. Amnesia
  is sometimes an extreme form of repression.

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RATIONALISATION

• not facing the real reasons for our behaviour and
  convincing ourselves that there are other
  reasons.
• Sour Grapes - this is a form of rationalization.
  When we cannot reach a goal, we tell ourselves
  and perhaps others that it was not a worthwhile
  goal.

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REGRESSION

• When we cannot deal with problems in a mature
  way, we may go back to behaviour patterns of an
  early period of our lives.

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Denial

• refusal to accept reality and to act as if a
  painful event, thought or feeling did not exist.

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Sublimation

• the channeling of unacceptable impulses into more
  acceptable outlets.
• For instance, a man who is dissatisfied with his
  sex life but who has not stepped out on his wife
  becomes very busy repairing his house while his
  wife is out of town.

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Undoing

• the attempt to take back behavior or thoughts
  that are unacceptable.
• An example of undoing would be excessively
  praising someone after having insulted them.

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3 Steps to Problem Solving

• Understand the problem
• Look for solutions
• Judge solutions Which one will help you solve
  your problem/achieve your goal? From this you
  make a decision !