A test for diagnosing psychological defense mechanisms.

Displacement: 60%
Substitution: 40%
Projection: 42%
Hypercompensation: 50%
Regression: 35%
Denial: 0%
Compensation: 20%
Rationalization: 8%
Overall tension: 32% (average: 40-50%)

Psychological defense mechanism:

Displacement. Z. Freud considered this mechanism (its analogue is suppression) to be the main way to protect the infantile "ego," which is unable to resist temptation. In other words, displacement is a defense mechanism through which unacceptable impulses for the personality – desires, thoughts, feelings that cause anxiety – become unconscious. According to most researchers, this mechanism underlies the action of other defensive mechanisms of the personality. Displaced (suppressed) impulses, not finding resolution in behavior, nevertheless retain their emotional and psychovegetative components. For example, it is typical for the content side of a psychologically traumatic situation not to be realized, and a person displaces the very fact of some reprehensible act, but the intrapsychic conflict remains, and the emotional tension caused by it is subjectively perceived as externally unmotivated anxiety. This is why displaced drives can manifest in neurotic and psychophysiological symptoms. As research and clinical experience show, many properties, personality traits, and actions that do not make a person attractive in their own eyes and in the eyes of others are most often displaced, for example, envy, ill will, ingratitude, etc. It should be emphasized that psychologically traumatic circumstances or unwanted information are actually displaced from a person's consciousness, although externally this may look like active resistance to memories and self-analysis.