Defence Mechanisms Flashcards

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Regression

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Revert to early behaviours in stressful events due to fixation at earlier stage, recapture childhood relating

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Denial

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Refuse to accept reality to decrease anxiety.

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Repression

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Stops anxiety, information out of conscious awareness. When it is conscious = suppression.

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Projection

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Assign undesirable feelings about oneself onto others.

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Introjection

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Internalising characteristics of person/object into oneself unconsciously

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Reaction formation

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Inhibiting anxiety by taking up and exaggerating the opposite feeling/behaviour/impulse.

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Undoing

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A ritualistic act of undo unacceptable act/thought with anxiety.

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Sublimation

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Acting out unacceptable impulses in more socially acceptable ways.

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Turning against self

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Turn aggressive feelings about person/self onto self.

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Rationalisation

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Logical reasons to explain unacceptable behaviour to decrease anxiety and protect self esteem, self concept.

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Intellectualisation

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Decrease anxiety separates emotional and factual information

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Displacement

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Taking out frustrations in less threatening objects.

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Defence mechanisms in adolescence

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Physical changes and increase sex drive = imbalance in id and ego. Conflict between independance + dependance/ adult vs. child.

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Defence mechanism

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Developed by ego to decrease anxiety, important for personality development.

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