Home›Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms›Type of Phenomenon›Emotional PhenomenonBrowse ByEmotional PhenomenonType of phenomenon separates effects that are adaptive from those that are simply errors. Wikipedia notes that "cognitive biases may initially appear to be negative, some are adaptive," since a quick judgment can sometimes be more useful than a perfectly accurate one. This grouping lets a visitor tell a helpful mental shortcut apart from a genuine distortion.FactsEmotional PhenomenonSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonOriginating WorkWell-attestedAnna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936) 1Emotional PhenomenonFilter Results24 entriesPhenomenon FamilyAllDefense Mechanisms (20)Projection and Transference Processes (4)Branch of PsychologyAllAbnormal Psychology (1)Clinical Psychology (1)Cognitive Psychology (5)Forensic Psychology (1)Personality Psychology (14)In GroupAllDefense Mechanisms (20)Projection and Transference Processes (4)First Described EraAll1887 (1)1894 (1)1896 (1)1905 (1)1908 (2)1909 (1)1910 (1)1913 (1)1915 (1)1936 (2)1952 (1)1987 (1)Associated PsychologistAllMelanie Klein (1)Sigmund Freud (4)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 24Acting OutEmotional PhenomenonCompartmentalization (Psychology)Emotional PhenomenonCountertransferenceEmotional PhenomenonDenial (Psychology)Emotional PhenomenonDisplacement (Psychology)Emotional PhenomenonIdealization and DevaluationEmotional PhenomenonIdentification with the AggressorEmotional PhenomenonIntellectualizationEmotional PhenomenonIntrojection (Psychology)Emotional PhenomenonIsolationEmotional PhenomenonIsolation (Psychology)Emotional PhenomenonMinimisation (Psychology)Emotional PhenomenonMotivated ForgettingEmotional PhenomenonPostponement of AffectEmotional PhenomenonProjection (Psychology)Emotional PhenomenonProjective IdentificationEmotional PhenomenonRationalization (Psychology)Emotional PhenomenonReaction FormationEmotional PhenomenonRegression (Psychology)Emotional PhenomenonRepression (Psychoanalysis)Emotional PhenomenonSplitting (Psychology)Emotional PhenomenonSublimation (Psychology)Emotional PhenomenonThought SuppressionEmotional PhenomenonUndoing (Psychology)Emotional PhenomenonSources1. Wikipedia: Defence mechanismtier 2WikipediaDefence mechanism, History sectionQuote, Defence mechanism, History sectionIn the first definitive book on defence mechanisms, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), Anna Freud enumerated the ten defence mechanisms that appear in the works of her father, Sigmund Freud.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.