Schizophrenia as an Action of Disturbed Ego Defence Mechanisms

This Video can be seen as a test for ego defense mechanisms. It is similar to the original ‘Defense Mechanism Test’ (DMT). If you have an idea, what is shown on the screen, stop the video and write down your thoughts. You can also draw a picture of your idea. Then you can look further and if you have a new idea then stop again the video and so on. Then the answers can be interpreted by the theory of Anna Freud. The description of the real photo is placed in the tags. Freud, A. (1937). The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence. London: Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis. Eugen Bleuler formed the term “schizophrenia”, which means that somebody is in a state of “ambivalence” (a term also formed by Bleuler). The relevance of this phenomenon was first described by the spanish rhetoric professor Balthasar Gracian in the book “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”: “Be Resolute: Bad execution of your designs does less harm than irresolution in forming them. Streams do less harm flowing than when dammed up.” The orgin of ambivalence are wishes to make good and well-proofed decisions, but it is nearly impossible to know all informations about a thing and project the outcome of decisions for the whole future. So the aim of coaching people in a state of ambivalence is to make decisions. This was an idea of Loren Mosher: www.moshersoteria.com Probably in schizophrenia the defence mechanisms, which were described by Anna Freud, fight against their self. For example, a human forces …
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