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1.03 Defense and Coping Mechanisms Flashcards

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Primarily unconscious

goal is immediate gratification of the drives, otherwise it would create anxiety if not allowed

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Id

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Has both conscious and unconscious components

what should be done, what should not be done

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superego

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Mediator between the id and superego, the person and reality

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ego

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Conscious roles of the ego

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Perception
Learning
Reality Testing
Thinking
Comprehension
Affect
Judgement
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The collection, identification, organization and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment

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Perception

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Acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information

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Learning

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The ability to have abstract, logical and coherent thoughts

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Thinking

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Understanding

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Comprehension

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Refers to the experience of feeling or emotion

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Affect

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Adjudication capabilities of particular individuals

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Judgement

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Allows us to express our impulses in a disguised form

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Defense Mechanisms

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Genesis of defense mechanisms

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1) Id seeks expression of an impulse
2) The superego prohibits the impulse from being expressed
3) Conflict produces anxiety
4) Ego defense is recruited to decrease anxiety
5) Decrease the anxiety as compromise
6) Defense mechanism
7) A character or trait is formed, based on the types of ego defenses used.

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Classifications of Defense Mechanisms by George Vaillant

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Narcissistic
Immature
Neurotic
Mature

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Defenses found as part of a psychotic process but may also occur in young children and adult dreams or fantasies

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Narcissistic defense mechanisms

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Share common notes of avoiding, negating or distorting reality

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Narcissistic defense mechanisms

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Types of Narcissistic Defense Mechanisms

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Denial
Distortion
Projection

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Reality is ignored so as to avoid painful feelings and memories

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Denial

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Altering one’s perception of the environment by replacing reality with a more acceptable version in order to suit the inner needs

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Distortion

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Casting out unacceptable thoughts or feelings onto others, misattributing or misinterpreting motives, attitudes, feelings or intentions of others

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Projection

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Mechanisms common in preadolescent years and adult character disorders
often mobilized by anxieties related to intimacy and loss

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Immature Defense Mechanisms

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Immature Defense Mechanisms

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Acting out
Passive Aggressive behavior
Regression
Schizoid fantasy
Somatization
Hyperchondriasis
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Performing an extreme behavior in order to express thoughts or feelings the person feels incapable of otherwise expressing

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Acting out

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The expression of hostile feelings in a non-aggressive or non-confrontational manner

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Passive-Aggressive behavior

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Attempt to go back to an earlier phase of functioning in an attempt to avoid the tension involved at the current level of development

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Regression

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Retreating into one’s private internal world to avoid anxiety brought by interpersonal situations

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Schizoid Fantasy

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Compensatory relationship in the fantasy, a substitute for an actual experience

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Schizoid Fantasy

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Converting emotional pain into physical symptoms and focussing one’s attention on somatic rather than intrapsychic concerns

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Somatization

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Exaggerating or overemphasizing an illness for the purpose of evasion and regression

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Hypochondriasis

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Unacceptable aggressive impulses toward others is transformed into self reproach and complaints of pain, somatic illness and neurasthenia

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Hypochondriasis

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Function usually in the alleviation of distressing affects and may be expressed in neurotic forms of behavior

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Neurotic Defenses

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Neurotic Defenses

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3R2IDS

Displacement
Intellectualization
Rationalization
Isolation of Affect
Reaction Formation
Repression
Sexualization
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Transferring an emotion associated with one idea or object to another one where the expression is more permitted, less forbidden and more acceptable

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Displacement

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Overemphasis on thinking to deal with emotional issues

Attention is focused on irrelevant details, avoidance of expression of emotion

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Intellectualization

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Offering rational explanations in an attempt to justify beliefs, attitudes or behaviors or failures that is otherwise unacceptable or intolerable

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Rationalization

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A justification of attitudes, beliefs or behavior that might otherwise be unacceptable by an incorrect application of justifying reasons or the invention of a convincing fallacy

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Rationalization

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Separating an idea from its associated emotion

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Isolation of Affect

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Unacceptable wishes are transformed into the complete opposite

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Reaction Formation

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Expelling or excluding unacceptable ideas or impulses or blocking them from entering consciousness

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Repression

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Situations and people are colored with sexual overtones that were either not there, or if present, were subtle

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Sexualization

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Defense mechanisms that can underlie seemingly admirable and virtuous patterns of behavior

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Mature Defenses

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Committing oneself to the needs of others over and above one’s own needs

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Delaying immediate gratification by planning and thinking about future achievements and accomplishments

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Anticipation

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Attempt to eliminate pleasurable aspects of experience

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Asceticism

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Finding something comic in difficult situations to reduce unpleasant affect and personal discomfort

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Channeling of unacceptable impulse, thoughts and emotions into acceptable one

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Sublimation

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Conscious decision to delay paying attention to an emotion or need in order to cope with the present reality

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Suppression

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Internalizing the qualities of another person and becoming like that person

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Identification

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An attempt to take back an unconscious behavior or thought that is unacceptable or hurtful

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Classes of coping mechanisms

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Consciously Seeking Social Support
Conscious Cognitive Strategies
Adaptive involuntary Coping Mechanisms

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Class of coping mechanisms in which individuals elicit help from appropriate others

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Consciously Seeking Social Support

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Class of coping mechanisms that individuals intentionally use to master stress

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Conscious Cognitive Strategies

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Class of coping mechanisms that distort our perception of internal and external reality in order to reduce subjective distress, anxiety and depression

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Adaptive involuntary Coping Mechanisms

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Levels of Coping

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1) Defensive Deregulation
2) Action Level
3) Major image distorting level
4) Disavowal level
5) Minor image distortion level
6) Mental inhibitions level
7) High adaptive level

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Level of coping characterized by failure of defensive regulation to contain the individual’s reaction to stressors, leading to a pronounced break with objective reality

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Defensive Deregulation

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Examples of Defensive Deregulation

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Delusional projection
Psychotic denial of external reality
Psychotic distortion

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Level of coping characterized by defensive functioning that deals with internal or external stressors by action or withdrawal

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Action level

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Examples of Action level

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Acting out
Passive Aggression
Apathetic withdrawal
Help rejecting complaining

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Level of coping characterized by gross distortion of misattribution of the image of self or others

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Major image distorting level

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Examples of Major image distorting level

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Autistic fantasy

Splitting of self image or image of others

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Level of coping characterized by keeping unpleasant or unacceptable stressors, impulses, ideas, affects, or responsibility out of awareness with or without a misattribution of these to external causes

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Disavowal level

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Examples of disavowal level

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Denial
Projection
Rationalization

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Level of coping characterized by distortions of the image of the self, body or others that may be employed to regulate self esteem

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Minor image distortion level

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Examples of Minor image distortion level

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Devaluation
Idealization
Omnipotence

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Level of coping characterized by keeping potentially threatening ideas, feelings, memories, wishes or fears out of awareness

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Mental inhibitions level

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Examples of Mental inhibitions level

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Displacement
Reaction formation
Dissociation
Repression
Intellectualization
Undoing
Isolation of affect
66
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Level of coping characterized by maximizing gratification and allowing the conscious awareness of feelings, ideas and their consequences

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High Adaptive Level

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Examples of High Adaptive Level

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Anticipation
Self Assertion
Affiliation
Self observation
Altruism
Sublimation
Humor
Suppression

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