Antikythera mechanism

Defenses Defenses consist of cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal strategies employed by patients to keep anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings out of awareness (see figure 4). There are two types of defenses, formal and tactical. Formal defense are implemented to prevent conscious awareness of thoughts and feelings experienced as dangerous. There are two subcategories of formal defenses, repressive and regressive. Repressive defenses include intellectualization, rationalization,…

John is a 16-year-old who has recently undergone an intervention to address his violent behavior towards both family and strangers. John now finds himself in a residential treatment home, where he receives group and individual therapy sessions. Throughout this paper, I will examine John’s case through the psychodynamic perspective. The psychodynamic perspective incorporates many ideas from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. The psychodynamic approach focuses on the idea that people react…

incongruence, the client relies on the utilization of defense mechanisms. The two mechanisms described in PCT are perceptual distortion and denial.These are defined as the reinterpretation of reality to make it less threatening to one’s ideal-self concept and the refusal to acknowledge an unpleasant situation by disregarding reality, respectively (Rogers, 1942). Based on the information provided, the client has used both defense mechanisms to protect his self-concept. The client uses perceptual…

• Personal anecdotes relating to the essay where add giving it humor and something to be familiar with. • My own humor was added to make reading the essay more enjoyable. Also, to have a chance at taking a risk by adding my own humor and learning how to do it. • To help summarize the essays a conclusion was added that summed both of them up and how they relate. Baker vs. Britt In “The Plot Against People,” Russel Baker illustrates how inanimate objects tend to disappear. Baker describes all…

with its roots, so it cannot re-surface. I found that this concept directly relates to my psychology class in which we talked about Sigmund Freud’s defense mechanisms. The defense mechanism that is described here could be displacement, where one turns their aggression towards a more vulnerable target instead of the true threat. Defense mechanisms are…

Lucy’s presenting concerns uses an ISTDP framework. Lucy’s relational difficulties in her present life are connected to her past relational pattern with her parents. She is stuck in a cycle of emotional avoidance through implementation of defense mechanisms in order to keep her anxiety down. At one point in her life, these defenses were effective but now they no longer serves their purposes and as such causes Lucy distress thus pushing her to come back into therapy. I will start the…

followed in the study faced throughout their lives, the main focus of the study was about how these men reacted and dealt with trouble. During the study, Vaillant divided these adaptations into four categories: The unhealthiest of these defense mechanisms are the “psychotic adaptations”, which include paranoioa and hallucinacions. People and young children might use psychotic defenses to tolerate reality but they might look crazy to others. In the article I also found intriguing how another…

We commonly see these decisions in literature through defense mechanisms, such as displacement and denial of fears and emotions. A recurring theme we see throughout literature using the psychoanalytical theory is displacement. this defense mechanism is used by a character to bear the blame and anger on others to suffer in their place. In other words, displacement is a way for a character to project his…

Although he may, as previously mentioned, use humour as a defense mechanism, he is also, at moments, completely sober. His clarified perspective can be seen in “The medical area has morphine for emergencies. And there’s enough for a lethal dose. I’m not going to slowly starve to death, I’ll tell you that” (10). Although…

One of the most obvious things I think anyone would notice in Oliver’s videos, is his use of humor. He does not just use humorous rhetoric to be funny, but it also gets your attention. When Oliver makes comparisons of serious issues to things that are comical, it makes viewers want to keep watching and even want to agree with him because he comes across as a funny, likable guy who knows what he is talking about. Not only do humorous comparisons make his show entertaining, but they also make what…