Conversion Reaction Defense Mechanism. Because of their direct contact with patients physical therapists are in. Lesser symptoms include tiredness. Reaction formation is an intriguing defense mechanism if you accept freud s logic. Reaktionsbildung is a defense mechanism in which emotions and impulses which are anxiety producing or perceived to be unacceptable are mastered by exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency.
Freud said reaction formation has a compulsive or excessive quality. Extreme symptoms may include paralysis blindness deafness becoming mute or having a seizure. Conversion is a defense mechanism whereby the anxiety caused by repressed impulses and feelings are converted into a physical complaint. The symptom may well be symbolic and dramatic and it often acts as a communication about the situation. Defense mechanisms and anxiety although mental health workers may be more familiar with conversion reactions physical ther apists may actually see them more often because these disorders are presented as physical not psychological problems. The symptom may well be symbolic and dramatic and it often acts as a communication about the situation.
Freud said reaction formation has a compulsive or excessive quality.
The symptom may well be symbolic and dramatic and it often acts as a communication about the situation. Extreme symptoms may include paralysis blindness deafness becoming mute or having a seizure. Freud said reaction formation has a compulsive or excessive quality. Reaction formation is an intriguing defense mechanism if you accept freud s logic. The ego thereby fortifies itself at its point of greatest weakness. The reaction formations belong to level 3 of neurotic defense mechanisms which also include dissociation displacement intellectualization and.