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The husband and his wife are often asked in USMLE to illustrate and exemplify certain mental defense mechanisms.
Here are some examples:
Here are some examples:
- Husband attracted to another woman goes back and make love to his wife.
- Husband attracted to another woman goes back and offer flowers to his wife.
- Husband attracted to his student then he becomes her mentor.
- Husband having affair with another woman justifies to himself by saying this will make me appreciate my wife more.
- Husband attracted to another woman then he thinks that his wife is cheating on him.
- Husband attracted to another woman and explains to his friend that how sexual desires are instinctual and cannot be controlled.
- Husband attracted to another woman then goes and write about how bad cheating husbands are in the newspaper.
- Husband fought with his wife then went fighting at a football game.
- Husband told of grave diagnosis and tells his wife "Honey, I need your help without you I cannot fight".
- Displacement
- Undoing
- Sublimation
- Rationalization
- Projection
- Intellectualization
- Reaction formation
- Displacement
- Regression