INSIDE THE ART, CRAFT AND BUSINESS OF WRITING for Film, TV, Books, Stage, Print or Digital Media (with Particular Attention to Comedy)
These categories can help you develop and dimensionalize characters – and to help shape storylines – in any kind of fiction. Of course, it made me proud that my favorite personal defense mechanism is Humor, which is considered a ‘Mature’ defense.
28 Defense Mechanisms
Adapted from Adaptation to Life by George Vaillant
Based on The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense by Anna Freud
Mature Defenses
Narcissistic Defenses
Immature Defenses
Neurotic Defenses
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