Understanding Defense Mechanisms

Published: July 13, 2017, 4 p.m.

Understanding Defense Mechanisms

Your host discusses the following: 

* What is a defense mechanism? What role do they serve?

* What is a reaction formation?

* What is projection? We strongly condemn in others what we can't admit about ourselves.

* What is rationalization and how can we recognize it?

* Is there a difference between a "good" reason and the "real" reason?