Title: How Healthy Are Your Defense Mechanisms? | Psychology Today
Headings: How Healthy Are Your Defense Mechanisms?
Susan Krauss Whitbourne Ph.D.
How Healthy Are Your Defense Mechanisms?
Research into how mature or immature responses to life affect the mind and body.
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Content: Signing an important contract? Failed job interview? What's funny here? Someone who is humorous about such situations probably is dissociated with the reality. That's not healthy, that's not processing of emotions. And what about suppression? To what degree should you suppress your emotions when someone sabotages your work or attacks you? I will not suppress my emotion if someone gets in the way. How this person will know if I suppress? Reply to MJ
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Humour can be a healthy
Submitted by E on December 4, 2017 - 9:52am
Humour can be a healthy defence mechanism because it helps us stay cool and see the situation or attacker objectively or from different perspectives e.g. when our spouse or kids are screaming at us unreasonably, we can think of how silly they are acting, like cartoon characters and it helps us respond calmly and constructively.