Defence Mechanisms Flashcards
Forgetting something really bad.
Repression
Unpleasant reality is ignored, and a realistic interpretation of potentially threatening events are replaced by benign but inacc
Denial
Fears can be replaced by thinking of a happy place, time, or events.
Suppression
An angry person believes others are angry at him/her. A person who critical of others believes they are critical of him/her.
Projection
Displacement involves taking out our frustrations, feelings and impulse on people or objects that are less threatening
Displacement
Kill them with kindness.
Reaction formation
When confronted by stressful events, people sometimes abandon coping strategies and revert to patterns of behavior used earlier in development
Regression
People with an oral fixation have problems with drinking, smoking, and nail biting when they are experiencing stressful events.
Fixation
If a person says “I don’t care if I wasn’t chosen for the team; I didn’t really wanna to play soccer anyway”
Rationalization
Reading about the grieving process after a parents death. To stressful to share there emotion
Isolation
Taking on characteristics of someone important parent, sports celebrity
Identification
Channeling aggressive tendencies into playing a contact sport.
Sublimation
A young person becomes physically disabled and compensates by working hard academically and becomes a doctor.
Compensation
