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[DrBrainTickler]

Thanks for the knowledge in bite-sized bits. That being said, I see a lot of people complaining about the audio quality, (which is legitimate complaint but I've heard much worse). At any rate, you could republish the video after increasing the audio gain and then you don't have to reshoot the video... Not really a big deal and it would suck to lose all the comments. Especially for me but do as you feel is best.

[jlvillamayor]

I used speaker to hear this lesson, and the concepts are great and excellent explanation

[TwoBlackRings]

Which books would you recommend to read deeper on the subject of defense mechanisms?

[dustinclark]

Repression is my fault, i have done it without being conscious of it for years and I bottle up outrageous moments until they surface a lot later on in time. I m not happier or satisfied in life, whereas i have a strong sense of humor.

[emile]

"Passive-aggressive behavior is the indirect expression of hostility, such as through procrastination, stubbornness, sullen behavior, or deliberate or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is (often explicitly) responsible."  Your definition of this was scant.  You omitted sullen behaviour which isn't as unconscious as the other factors  because hostility is more or less on display therein.  Also you forgot negativism and hypochondria and the fantasist and sheer acting out of impulses without reflection.  You also omitted flight into drug/alcohol euphoria.

[AlphaVirusg]

Can it be a requirement for people that submit videos to have a proper microphone. I have to turn my volume up to understand this person.

[vishvakumara]

You said suppression is a mature defense mechanism - but I have had great deal of pain as a result. In the end it is not much different from repression, you ends up with a lot of unprocessed emotions, and when discussing anything in a session, everything spills out all over the place - and your therapist thinks you are a too difficult case.

[jenniferh.]

At the very end reaction formation was mentioned, i will have to research works for this concept more because I thought it was just 'forming a reaction'. But it sounds like in psychology reaction formation is more like the example he gave

[cutwir]

I like the categories it’s called Vaillant's categorization. I just found out its Psychiatrist George Eman Vaillant introduced a four-level classification of defence mechanisms.

[UpwardsOnly]

ok what about people who are passive-aggressively humourous about others thereby belittling them because of anger or resentment ? You make it seem as that is a mature reaction, where actually, I think, people like that should talk it out, go to therapy or change their lense of how they see the world, no?

[shuxiongbao]

The Ego concept is quite different from the 1 presented by Revolver 2005

[mohamedbadawy]

what is the difference between sublimation and reaction formation

[gt]

humor seems more neurotic than intellectualization

[candaxen]

Poor quality audio. Especially with the accent, a good microphone and annunciation is required.

[squilliamUwU]

Why is this the only video that came up for using aggression as a defense mechanism? This is actually really bad.

[ivandate]

how come one are named mature and one named immature ?
that is not science that is religion

[DrBrainTickler]

I think it's funny that humor is considered to be a "mature" defense mechanism. Think about that for a second. We have to paint something up as a joke, approach it with Sesame Street gloves and make light of something that's serious because everyone's too immature to talk about it in a real tone and yet the field of psychology labels humor as a mature defense mechanism. Laughable. Humorous indeed. 😋😆🤔🖕🌎

[raijohnson]

Your presentation is not good the drawings are cluttered

[lovingn]

TALK UP! Damn can't even hear you. Made me click on another video