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Psychology is the science of mind and behavior. It is not the study of the brain according to the APA. Psychology is fun!

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Social psychology is the study of how people's thoughts feelings and actions affect others.

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"I added information on Anna Freud because she was one of the first to study defense mechanisms in depth"

Anna Freud's Defense Mechanisms
Both Anna Freud and her famous father Sigmund studied defense mechanisms but Anna spent more of her time and research on five main mechanisms: repression, regression, projection, reaction formation, and sublimation. All defense mechanisms are responses to anxiety and how the consciousness and subconscious handle the stress of a social situation for example.

Repression: when a feeling is hidden and forced from the consciousness to the unconscious because it is seen as socially unacceptable.

Regression: falling back into an early state of mental/physical development seen as “less demanding and safer”

Projection: possessing a feeling that is deigned as socially unacceptable and instead of facing it, that feeling or “unconscious urge” is seen actions of other people

Reaction formation: acting the opposite way that the unconscious instructs a person to behave, “often exaggerated and obsessive.” (i.e. If a wife is infatuated with a man whom is not her husband, reaction formation will cause her to-rather than cheat-become obsessed with showing her husband signs of love and affection.)

Sublimation: seen as the most acceptable of the mechanisms, an expression of anxiety in socially acceptable ways

George Eman Vaillant M.D.
Dr. Vaillant is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University and employed at Massachusetts General Hospital