Applied psychology is the area of psychology concerned with applying psychological research and theory to problems in everyday life. It includes clinical psychology, the largest field in psychology. Clinical psychologist – who represent 40% of all psychologist are involved in psychotherapy. ( Gale 931). First of all therapies such as the psychoanalytic psychotherapy or discussion therapy, which is the most popular kind of therapy recognize worldwide. During these treatment sessions it consist of saying whatever a patient may have in their minds. This process makes the analyst and patient work together to modify life patterns and release the unconscious .(Gale 925). This build a closeness between the analyst and the patient..
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These theories are part of our everyday lives. “Defence mechanisms” protects the individual from painful emotions, ideas, and drives (Vaillant 3) . Defence mechanism help protect someone from anxiety experiences . It enable the mind to reach solutions to conflicts by regulating a relationship. There exist many types of defence mechanisms used daily such as denial, splitting, repression, regression, intellectualization, isolation, displacement, projection and many more. For example denial is the one most well know because it implies in a given situation, “repressing the instinct demand that had appear” (Vaillant 10) in other words it protects the self esteem by not acknowledging a situation such as victims of a traumatic …show more content…
An insecure attachment leads to high risk taking behaviours such as substance abuse. This can be because consuming substances is a way to protect oneself from the pain of an insecure for instance parental relationship. The two have to work in harmony or else there could be a clash in relationship. Defence mechanisms are natural in our everyday lives and attachment theory never stop being present because most of us are in constant relationship with our caregivers or romantic partner as time
These theories are part of our everyday lives. “Defence mechanisms” protects the individual from painful emotions, ideas, and drives (Vaillant 3) . Defence mechanism help protect someone from anxiety experiences . It enable the mind to reach solutions to conflicts by regulating a relationship. There exist many types of defence mechanisms used daily such as denial, splitting, repression, regression, intellectualization, isolation, displacement, projection and many more. For example denial is the one most well know because it implies in a given situation, “repressing the instinct demand that had appear” (Vaillant 10) in other words it protects the self esteem by not acknowledging a situation such as victims of a traumatic …show more content…
An insecure attachment leads to high risk taking behaviours such as substance abuse. This can be because consuming substances is a way to protect oneself from the pain of an insecure for instance parental relationship. The two have to work in harmony or else there could be a clash in relationship. Defence mechanisms are natural in our everyday lives and attachment theory never stop being present because most of us are in constant relationship with our caregivers or romantic partner as time