Our psyche is very complicated. The fact is that it not only accepts the necessary information, but replaces the one that, for one reason or another, falls into the category of unnecessary or even dangerous. Psychological defense mechanisms are things that help us keep our minds free from clogging. Consider all this in detail.
The protective mechanisms of the psyche
Let's start with crowding out. It is understood as a process during which those that entail any suffering, unpleasant experiences, and so on, are excluded from the sphere of our desires, feelings, and thoughts. A typical example of this mechanism is that a person often forgets those responsibilities that he does not want to perform. It is worth mentioning the unpleasant memories of the past, which may eventually be completely forgotten. In some cases, people forget even whole stretches of life paths.
There is also a protective mechanism such as projection. In this case, a person, not wanting to recognize certain negative traits, ascribes them to someone else. Such protective mechanisms allow people to justify their actions that are wrong. Projection often justifies cruelty to someone. How to understand this? The fact is that a person hurts someone, and in the case of torment of conscience convinces himself that the object of his atrocities himself causes a lot of pain to others.
Identification is nothing more than identifying oneself with someone. The individual learns someone and begins to behave in the way that this person behaves. In most cases, everything happens unconsciously. You can identify yourself not only with a single person, but, for example, with a group of people. Man imitates not only actions, but also experiences.
Introjection also refers to defense mechanisms. In this case, a person transfers the features of one object to another, thereby compensating for the lack of the first. In certain cases, he can transfer these traits not to someone else, but to himself. As an example, we can say that a child whose kitten died may behave like this over time, his favorite behaved.
In reactive transformation, the individual changes one mental state to another. In most cases, this is done completely unconsciously, that is, unconsciously. Often, such protective mechanisms are used in order to hide their true attitude to what is happening around. As an example, it should be recalled that often under aggression people hide the most ordinary fear, and hatred can hide nothing more than love.
Self-restraint also applies to protection mechanisms. Life is arranged so that someone goes ahead, and someone lags behind. When a person begins to realize that he is different from everyone else not in the best way, and his successes in one area or another are a little worth, his self-esteem begins to fall sharply. In order not to feel lagging behind, the individual simply switches to something else. In most cases, of course, begins to do something simpler.
Revocation is a psychic mechanism used to block any unpleasant thoughts or unnecessary feelings. Everything is based on the fact that a person seems to smooth out his guilt, doing something that can eliminate the cause of his torment of conscience or something like that.
When denied, the individual refuses to accept information that he considers unacceptable and unpleasant for himself. In this case, he can come up with any excuses for what happened, compose new versions of what happened and so on.
Offset is the switching of attention to any foreign object in order not to perceive anything.