Personality Disorders. Personality disorders are relatively stable patterns of thinking, perceiving, reacting, and relating that differ from expected norms and that begin early in life.
These patterns cause the person significant distress and/or impair the person's ability to function socially. Everyone has characteristic patterns of perceiving and relating to other people and stressful events. For example, some people respond to a troubling situation by seeking someone else's help. Others prefer to deal with problems on their own. Defense Mechanisms - Personality Disorders. Mark Dombeck, Ph.D.
Defense Mechanisms We go through many, many changes as we move from infancy through childhood to adulthood. The one that came to mind for me the other day as I was holding a friend's new born baby in my arms and thinking about the psychological distance between his infant mind and my own, was a consciousness of all the personality defenses and coping strategies we learn while growing up; how important these things are for keeping us safe from the more predatory elements of our world, but also the openness we can lose as these defenses get built. Personality defenses (coping techniques, defense mechanisms) are important things in that they strongly influence the ease with which people are able to form and maintain healthy relationships and reject unhealthy relationships. Mapping the world and the self. MSEkm.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) Yoga Sequence Builder - Create your own Yoga Routines. Home. 10 Ideas for Flavoring Water Kefir.