Ego and Mechanisms of Defense

By 한성희. 2011

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Emotion Regulation: Current Status and Future Prospects (2015, background): “This theme was elaborated by clinicians and researchers interested in ego defenses (Cramer, 2008; A. Freud, 1946) and attachment styles (Bowlby, 1969; Shaver & Mikulincer, 2014).”
Toward a Social Psychology of Authenticity: Exploring Within-Person Variation in Autonomy, Congruence, and Genuineness Using Self-Determination Theory (2019, background): “Interestingly, incongruent persons were more likely to express prejudice toward LGB individuals, betraying “reaction formation” (Freud, 1946), a defensively constructed attitude that serves to protect the self against realizing this incongruence. As Kernis and Goldman (2006) emphasized, authenticity”
Handbook of cognitive-behavioral therapies (2009, unknown): “REBT theory endorses the Freudian view of human defensiveness to explain how people perpetuate their psychological problems (Freud, 1937).”
Emotion Regulation Flexibility (2014, background): “Defense mechanisms were conceptualized as unconscious processes instantiated by the ego in order to keep intrapsychic conflict (manifested as anxiety) outside of conscious awareness (e.g., Caligor et al. 2011; A. Freud 1936; Willick 1995).”
Autonomy and autonomy disturbances in self-development and psychopathology: Research on motivation, attachment, and clinical process (2016, background): “This discrepancy, in turn, related to greater hostility toward gay targets, indicative of reaction formation (Freud, 1966).”
The Identity Statuses: Origins, Meanings, and Interpretations (2011, background): “Three phases may be distinguished in Freud’s development of the concept of ego functions (cf. Rapaport, 1958). First, the ego was viewed as a structure preventing the re-encountering of painful affect occasioned by an experience occurring in external reality. Second, the ego was seen as oriented tow”
Reconciling self-protection with self-improvement: Self-affirmation theory. (2011, background): “…have described the artful methods by which the human mind ignores, augments, transforms, and rearranges information in its unending battle against the affective consequences of negative events (Festinger, 1957; Freud, 1936; Greenwald , 1980; Kunda, 1990; Steele, 1988 . . . Taylor & Brown, 1988).”
How Techniques of Neutralization Legitimize Norm- and Attitude-Inconsistent Consumer Behavior (2013, background): “Defense mechanisms like neutralization involving denial, projection, and other response modes to defend one’s own integrity date back to early research in ego psychology (Fenichel 1945; Freud 1936).”
Parental resistance and social worker skills: towards a theory of motivational social work (2012, background): “Psychoanalytic theory puts forward the notion of ‘defence mechanisms’ to explain how individuals are able to avoid confronting such pains and difficulties (Freud 1937).”