PSYCHOTHERAPY - Anna Freud

10 Defense Mechanisms 1) Denial 2) Projection 3) Turning against the self 4) Sublimation 5) Regression 6) Rationalization 7) Intellectualization 8) Reaction Formation 9) Displacement 10) Fantasy

Anna Freud, I came to youtube to have a good time and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now.

I'm already in denial of being defensive.

does that mean i use at this moment intellectualism by warching this video to avoid thinking about my homeworks?

Anna effectively described modern society

"You're getting a bit defensive." "NO I'M NOT!"

"Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon my wit, to defend my wiles; upon my secrecy, to defend mine honesty; my mask, to defend my beauty." So if I understood it properly, this is what Shakespeare has to say on the subject! ( In Troilus and Cressida). Thanks a lot for the great lesson! And a very happy new year to whoever who reads this!

Wow! I like this video. Never heard of Anna Freud until now.  Didn't know the names of these behaviours or how they are linked either. A fascinating insight into the conflicts with ourselves and with the world around us.

Never heard of intellectualization until today but it is like a perfect description of me wow

What a woman.

Anna Freud enumerated the ten defence mechanisms that appear in the works of Sigmund Freud: 1. Repression, 2. Regression, 3. Reaction formation, 4. Isolation, 5. Undoing, 6. Projection, 7. Introjection, 8. Turning against one’s own person, 9. Reversal into the opposite, 10. Sublimation or displacement. But fantasy, humor, altruism, anticipatio, intellectualization and other defence mechanisms were described later on by their followers.

Just hours before seeing this video I was introduced to Anna Freud by an acquaintance of mine. He was talking about his upbringing and the weight imposed upon him by his eminent parents, one of which was a child psychologist. At a party they held Anna was present and questioned this acquaintance of mine on what it was like to be born of a family of such high esteem. He said, 'If you can't beat them, join them.' Slightly impertinent story, but what a coincidence that I discover so much about this figure in a single day!

I found this extremely valuable. 

Thank you for this fine little essay on Anna Freud.

I really apreciate these videos. They are very well made and interesting.

This chanel is awesome guys, thank you for the videos and keep up the good work!

What a great piece of information. Thank you so much for this post.

This is so true. Thank you for making it more easier to understand!

A very interesting set of ideas. I must contemplate this! They seem definitely true to me.

I'll be honest, intellectualism kind of went over my head a little. Does that mean thinking about "bigger issues" to avoid confronting your problems, minimising your issues by putting them in comparison with things that are considered "smarter" or "intellectual" on a larger scale, or learning new things as a means of emotional procrastination?