Personality
Personality
Psychoanalytic Perspective
Adler
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Inferiority Complex
Freud
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Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Defense Mechanisms
Projective Personality Tests
Jung
Horney
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Neurotic Trends
Horney and Freud
Criticisms of Psychoanalytic Theories
Humanistic Perspective
Maslow
Rogers
Humanistic Evaluation Techniques of Personality
Criticisms of the Humanistic Theories
Trait Perspective
Social Cognitive View
Our Personality Perspective
Works Cited
Defense Mechanisms
Repression, Regression, Denial, Projection, Displacement, Rationalization
According to Freud, defense mechanisms are the ego's protective strategies that distort reality in order to reduce anxiety for an individual.