Manifestation and usefulness of Defense Mechanisms during COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Defense mechanisms are important for human lives. They can be constructive as well as destructive, basically based on their use and also, their degree of usage. Everybody uses them in any point of life. It is also true for many psychiatric disorders. These mechanisms, especially used in the time of crisis or in unwanted and undesirable situations. The current situation, the global pandemic, is not only an extremely stressful but the unprecedented one too, warrants for a rise in the use of defense mechanisms. Defense mechanisms broadly divided in in two categories; mature defense mechanisms and immature defense mechanisms. Many psychiatric disorders are associated with defense mechanisms in the time of acute stress. It is important to have a look over defense mechanisms used by people with existing psychiatric disorders. And, attribution and usefulness of defense mechanisms in the light of current global pandemic.