First, despite the more than ...

First of all, despite more than a century of existence the concept of psychological defense, Freud introduced in 1884, this concept remains poorly developed and unclear. The concept of psychological defense is a fate like the fate of other psychoanalytic concepts - "Power I", which logically should have been delivered to the center of the psychological concepts of personality structure, but the use to which it was extremely difficult because of the difficulty of its specificity (Bassin, 1969). Psychological defense is determined by a majority of studies in terms of other mental processes, states, or some behavioral manifestations, ie, determined from outside, not inside, on the basis of their essential nature (Zhurbin, 1990). Secondly, the concept of psychological defense was proposed and developed originally in the mainstream of psychoanalytic direction, later in various areas of depth psychology, which significantly limited the scope of the concept. Adapting the concept to the rigid psychoanalytic schemes, researchers began to accept the description of psychological defenses (repression, sublimation, denial) as the definition. This resulted in the emergence of other problems: classifying the psychological defenses of their behavioral pattern, different authors have created irreducible and incommensurable with one another classification. For example, A. Freud has described 15 kinds of protections, dividing them into perceptual, intellectual and motor automatisms. In the Glossary of the American Psychiatric Association numbering 23. R. Plutchik, defining the mechanisms of psychological defense as derived from the emotions, and emotions as basic tools for adaptation, classifies the eight bipolar psychological defenses. F. Perls lays the basis for his classification of the so-called "plus-minus feature. Lack of consensus among modern scholars on the number of known species of psychological defenses, and the grounds for their classification makes it difficult to work in both theoretical and practical fields. The phenomenon of psychological defense mostly associated with features such as psychological adjustment, balancing and regulation. A. Freud first gives them a detailed definition: "a means by which the ego defends itself against annoyance and fear and tries to assert its dominance over impulsive behavior, affect, and inclinations" (A. Freud 1993, p. 12.). Most modern scholars tend to treat security as a process of intrapsychic adaptation of personality: psychological defense relieves tension, reduces anxiety and fear. However, for the constant maintenance of psychological defenses at an optimum level requires a constant expenditure of energy. These costs can be very significant and lead to neurotic symptoms and malfunction. Thirdly, the problem of psychological defense contains the essential contradiction between the desire of people to keep mental balance and losses, which leads to excessive intrusion protection.