The upcoming revision to the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual will purportedly eliminate Asperger’s Syndrome as a diagnosis, once again calling into question the scientific precision and validity of psychological diagnosis.
Category: Defense Mechanisms
The most prominent psychological defense mechanisms, including repression, denial, idealization, splitting and projection. This is the category for you.
Anxiety Symptoms, Mindfulness and the Enlargement of the Self
Mindfulness meditation techniques are a useful adjunct to psychotherapy, allowing you to see your defense mechanisms in action and to disengage from them, rather than a replacement for it.
Defense Mechanisms VII: Reaction Formation (Not to be Confused with Hypocrisy)
Reaction formation, like all defense mechanisms, is an unconscious process. People with conscious but secret desires they publicly denounce in others are not resorting to reaction formation; they are hypocrites.
Depression Symptoms and the Role of Rage
Unconscious rage plays an important role in depression symptoms. Bringing that rage into awareness often leads to an improvement in those symptoms.
Attachment Theory and the Tenacity of Defense Mechanisms
Early failures in attachment lead to the development of defense mechanisms, permanently structured into the brain’s neurology as it develops. This lasting damage does NOT mean that real and meaningful change is impossible.