The chart to end all charts.
Really, who had a chance? Look at the tiny proportion allotted to ‘healthy development.’
I love the ‘Sources’, too: ‘The work of Sigmund Freud, Heinz Kohut, Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbain, and Donald Winnicott.’ I think they forgot Anna Freud.
This seems to have a really pessimistic view of the human condition, but it does ring with enough truth that it could be useful as a character development tool. (This is what I do with psychological tools, mostly; I turn them into writing aids.)
It’s worth noting, though, that there’re always varying levels of intensity. Coping mechanisms aren’t innately bad; it’s when you fall so far into them that they stop helping you cope and start making the situation worse that problems arise. (Or, of course, when you have other problems or pressures that aren’t on this wheel and they make your coping mechanisms spin out of control while you try to handle them. It’s not always about bad parenting.) For myself, I’d say I’m reasonably put together, but when I do tilt, I lean toward the lower end of schizoid. I’m a rock star at dissociation, and intellectualization is definitely my primary coping mechanism.