264 Top Ego Defense Mechanisms
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Words like "denial" and "projecting" are thrown around a lot in casual conversation these days. These words are actually psychological terms that are defense mechanisms, and I think we've begun to throw them around so much that defense mechanism vocabulary can easily get misunderstood. On today's episode, I go over common defense mechanism terms that we often hear, and I clarify what they actually mean.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Terry Cole show and as you might have guessed I'm your host Terry Cole |
| 0:14.8 | For over two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist love and boundaries |
| 0:19.1 | expert and I'm also the founder of the Rail of Revolution and Boundary Boot Camp. |
| 0:24.0 | On this show I'll bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, |
| 0:28.4 | inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations from my time on the front lines in the |
| 0:34.5 | fascinating world of entertainment, empowerment, and mental health. Now let's get |
| 0:39.5 | going with today's episode. Well, hello and welcome to the Terry Cole show. |
| 0:50.8 | In case you are new to this crew, I am Terry Cole. I'm a licensed psychotherapist, a relationship |
| 0:57.0 | expert, the founder of Real Love Revolution and Boundary Boot Camp, and I'm also the proud author of a book called Boundary Boss, The Essential |
| 1:07.0 | Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and Finally, Live Free. That is coming out April 2021 people. Wow I'm so excited for that. So |
| 1:18.1 | welcome to the show today. Let's talk about ego defense mechanisms, shall we? That is what I am covering today and of course there are lots and lots of them. |
| 1:31.0 | So I'm not going to talk about all of them. |
| 1:34.3 | But I chose the top 10 and I'm giving you a guide. |
| 1:38.0 | So I'll keep it in a condensed way. |
| 1:40.2 | So if you want to just get the guide, |
| 1:41.5 | you just have to go to Terry Cole.com |
| 1:43.2 | forward slash 264 that is this episode and you will you will be able to |
| 1:49.8 | download the cheat sheet in the meantime in the episode itself I'm going to go over the ones I think are most commonly used by people and I think there's a lot of misinformation or misunderstanding about defense mechanisms. |
| 2:06.2 | We find that we hear about them, someone's in denial, someone's projecting, and yet yet I don't know that people actually know what that means |
| 2:18.2 | and the deal with ego defense mechanisms is that so much of this stuff happens unconsciously |
| 2:26.2 | and everyone has this built-in system. The reason we talk about it in psychological life is that if these are overused |
| 2:36.4 | They become maladaptive. We need them to protect us from |
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