![Frontiers | The Hierarchy of Defense Mechanisms: Assessing Defensive Functioning With the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales Q-Sort Frontiers | The Hierarchy of Defense Mechanisms: Assessing Defensive Functioning With the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales Q-Sort](https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/718440/fpsyg-12-718440-HTML/image_m/fpsyg-12-718440-g001.jpg)
Frontiers | The Hierarchy of Defense Mechanisms: Assessing Defensive Functioning With the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales Q-Sort
IMG STUDY GROUP - DEFENSE MECHANISMS As anxiety increases, the individual copes by using defense mechanisms. A defense mechanism is a coping mechanism used in an effort to protect the individual from
![Table 1 from How Does Our Brain Constitute Defense Mechanisms? First-Person Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis | Semantic Scholar Table 1 from How Does Our Brain Constitute Defense Mechanisms? First-Person Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis | Semantic Scholar](https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/e1b7acca19e76f7cb0989e903eb80667f908791c/2-Table1-1.png)
Table 1 from How Does Our Brain Constitute Defense Mechanisms? First-Person Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis | Semantic Scholar
![Ego Defense Mechanism Part I || Psychodynamic Perspective || ReadingisBest || Psychology Theory - YouTube Ego Defense Mechanism Part I || Psychodynamic Perspective || ReadingisBest || Psychology Theory - YouTube](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/t9gG8QxKrxs/maxresdefault.jpg)