List and describe the two defense mechanisms that tend to have more beneficial outcomes and provide two examples of each of these positive defense mechanisms

What will be an ideal response?

Answer will include that the defense mechanisms of compensation and sublimation tend to have more of a positive quality than the other ones. Compensatory reactions are defenses against feelings of inferiority. A person who has a defect or weakness (real or imagined) may go to unusual lengths to overcome the weakness or to compensate for it by excelling in other areas. There are dozens of examples of compensation, such as Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf and became a great thinker and writer; Jack LaLanne who made a successful career out of bodybuilding in spite of the fact that he was thin and sickly as a young man; and Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Andrea Bocelli, and other blind entertainers, who became great musicians and entertainers. The defense mechanism of sublimation can also be positive. It involves working off frustrated desires through socially acceptable activities. Freud believed that art, music, dance, poetry, scientific investigation, and other creative activities could serve to re-channel sexual energies into productive behavior. Examples might include a very aggressive person finding social acceptance as a boxer or football player and a person who lies sublimating these "stories" into creative writing or politics.