... and be able to cope. If not, abnormality arises, resulting in conduct disorders as a child and psychopathic disorders as an adult. When the Ego is managing to balance the two extremes, it employs defence mechanisms to help. These are used to distort or deny reality to help the body to protect the body from distress when trying to cope with the demands of each. Some of the defence mechanisms employed are: Repression - pushing unacceptable desires or emotions to the sub-conscious. Preventing them from being exposed. However, they do not disappear and arise at later date resulting in abnormality, such as unpredictably lashing out at somebody for particular reason. Freud suggested treatment using the psychodynamic model to solve these problems. Psychoanalysis, also known as the 'talking cure' is used to uncover unconscious psychodynamic processes happening in the mind. He also suggested analysing dreams, and that they played a part in revealing ...

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