Defense Mechanisms Defense Mechanisms As a counselor at a therapeutic foster care agency, the teens that I work with amaze me every day. They have all been through some extremely tough and trying situations and they have all in their own way managed to survive and overcome their own situation. Some lost their primary care.
Defensive Mechanisms Defensive Mechanisms Defense mechanisms are conflicts between the environment and the inner urges of a person that may create anxiety and/or discomfort. Defense mechanisms were created by Sigmund Freud, who thought that the ego would protect us from threatening id impulses by distorting our own reality and also to try to prevent threatening.
