Interestin career-related topic:

Mecanism of defense

The mechanisms of defense are unconscious resources used by the ego to reduce a conflict between the identity and superego, so in this way they can reduce feelings of anxiety. For that reason they are more frecuently referred as ego defense mechanisms. These are describe in the psychoanalytic theory. What I have learned about it is that there are different types of this mechanisms, which are different between them in the característics of the type of structure that the person that use them, has. So they can be classified en three types: low mechanisms of defense (or primitives), intermediate and high.
The first ones are used principally by people who has a psychotic structures, and the other two are used by limit and neurotic structures respectivly.
This are the general caracteristic about them I would like to know better how they work and if I can see them manifested in pacients.
Finally I recomend you to see and lear a little bit more about them and know their classifications and types at: http://allpsych.com/psychology101/defenses.html
http://www.rider.edu/~suler/defenses.html

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