Before revision: Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press Examples of defence mechanisms include: repression, the exclusion of unacceptable desires and ideas from consciousness , though in certain circumstances they may resurface in a disguised or distorted form ; identification, the incorporation of some aspects of an object into oneself , employed by the ego and superego to fortify the personality by attracting libido (sexual energy) away from objects and toward themselves ;Chalquist, Craig.
After revision: Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press Examples of defence mechanisms include: repression, the exclusion of unacceptable desires and ideas from consciousness ; identification, the incorporation of some aspects of an object into oneself ;Chalquist, Craig.