Comments on: Top 7 Psychological Defense Mechanisms

By: Linda F. Williams, BAOL, MSW, LMSW

Linda F. Williams, BAOL, MSW, LMSW — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:48:28 +0000

I wonder if there is some childhood frustration from false accusations or if you were not allowed to express yourself? If so, there is a frustrated child that keeps showing up in the face of criticism.

By: John P Quinn

John P Quinn — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:45:45 +0000

Psychiatiry has a long, checkered, history of attempting to label as “pathological” the human interaction with and experience with the “divine”.The primary reason for this is perhaps best intellectually, medically, and spiritually give voice by the late, great, M.Scott Peck, M.d.In his groundbreaking 1978 bestseller guide to genuine healing; The Roadless Traveled, he places foursquare the responsibility for recovery from mental illness (this does NOT include personality based disorders such as for sociopaths, Who by their very nature are incapable of having innate capacity for honest self-reflectoion, empathy with or for the larger human family) on the patieqnt through, in this particular context, a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and the miracles of healing and wholeness available to all those who ask, from Christ”s “sucessor” in this World, the Holy Spirit. Traditional Medicine, and for the purposes of this discussion, psychiatry, have a vested intrest in keeping the patient locked in a dependent relationship paradigm, that creates SOLEY, the twin ppillars of medication and sessions witn any given ppsychiatrist as the singular path to “stability” leaving n no possability for RECOVERY and WHOLENESS,Thiis ssad paradigm not only has the practical effect of eessentially depriving he/she from health, but in the most important context, robs the individual of the RIGHT, to know and experience joy, happiness, and oppurtunity, articulated in the greatest “divinely” inspired

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By: Anonymous Lucy

Anonymous Lucy — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:04:29 +0000

I have an example for you…. Me. I have a particularly stressful career; on a daily basis I am in constant contact with criticism, whether positive or negative. Inside I accept my criticism, realize the mistake made, appreciate the advice, and create solutions to fix the situation. But for some reason the emotion displayed is not a true representation of my feelings. I cry uncontrollably during the entire confrontation. I can’t even begin to explain how embarrassing and awkward this is. It could even be positive constructive criticism and I still well up with tears. ?? It is destructive to my career and my self esteem. I would do anything to change this “reaction”

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By: caroline

caroline — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:43:01 +0000

psychology 101…

By: Effeson

Effeson — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:44:10 +0000

I think your example of a gay acting "macho" and homophobic is a very good example.

; )

By: Princess♥

Princess♥ — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:46:58 +0000

compensation?

By: That person

That person — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:17:45 +0000

That was just a poor example. Think about when someone tells a dead baby joke. People laugh. Why????

By: Indigo

Indigo — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:34:33 +0000

A couple of comments here say that Reaction Formation is “utter bollocks” or words to that effect. But I have seen this happen. More than 20 years ago, I was working in a university department that employed some part-time teachers. Part of my job was to maintain the budget for the part-time teachers. At the end of term, I had to tell the head of department that one part-time teacher had claimed for all his lectures but in fact had not turned up to give two of them. Guess what the head of department did? Instead of docking the part-time teacher’s pay by two lectures, he wrote on the budget that he should be paid XXX which was MORE than the outside teacher was entitled to, even if he had fulfilled all his teaching commitments, ie more than was allocated to him in the budget as remuneration for his series of lectures. Completely mad.