Stop resisting and become invincible. Wisest thought. Psychology.

Department of Psychology. Center for new information technologies. UMK “Psychology”. The course of lectures of the winner of the Lomonosov Prize Professor Valery Viktorovich Petukhov. “General psychology. Section 1. Introduction to General Psychology” 1997. Behaviorism, accentuation of personality. Valery Viktorovich Petukhov Soviet and Russian psychologist, professor of the Department of General Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University, “Honored Teacher of Moscow State University”, winner of the prize named after M. V. Lomonosov. He gives a lecture on the human being as a subject of activity or personality psychology. 00:03 Habitual psychological defenses 00:16 A psychological defense is an explanation of a problem. 00:45 Let's ask three representatives of therapy 01:05 First answer from a behavior therapist 01:37 Second answer from a therapist of reasons. 02:00 Defenses help temporarily relieve anxiety. 02:21 Defense is harmful because it preserves the cause of the anxiety. 02:45 For the developing individual, defenses need to be removed. 03:05 Response from a representative of process humanistic therapy 03:15 All defenses are harmful