Defense and Coping Mechanisms

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Goal is immediate gratification of drives; unconscious

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Id

Question 2

Conscious and unconscious components

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Superego

Question 3

Mediator between the person and the reality

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Ego

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Acquisition of new knowledge

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Learning

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Collection, identification, organization and interpretation of sensory information to understand the environment

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Perception

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Capacity to distinguish what is occuring in one’s mind from external world; most important

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Reality Testing

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Ability to have logical, coherent and abstract thoughts

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Thinking

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Ability to understand

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Comprehension

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Experience of feeling or emotion

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Affect

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Capability of making decisions, discernment

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Judgment

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The Genesis of Defense Mechanisms (7)

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Id seeks to satisfy > Superego contradicts > Anxiety > Ego recruited > Compromise > Defense Mechanism > Character trait is formed

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What are the four classifications of defense mechanisms?

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Narcissistic (psychotic), immature, neurotic, mature

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A defense mechanism found as part of psychotic processes, projection of emotions

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Narcissistic

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Seeing but not acknowledging what one sees, denied reality is replaced by fantasy or delusion to avoid painful feelings and emotions

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Denial

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Replacing reality with a more acceptable version to suit inner needs

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Distortion

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Casting out unacceptable thoughts or feelings onto others

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Projection

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A defense mechanism mobilized by anxieities related to intimacy or its loss; can be improved

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Immature

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Retreating into one’s private internal world; compensatory relationship in the fantasy

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Schizoid Fantasy

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Expression of hostile feelings in a non-aggressive or non-confrontational manner

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Passive-Aggressive

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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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Extreme, inappropriate and impulsive behavior

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Acting Out

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Go back to an earlier phase of functioning to avoid situation

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Regression

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Converting emotional pain into physical symptoms

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Somatization

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Function in alleviation of distressing affects, common in apparently normal and healthy individuals

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Neurotic

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Attention focused on irrelevant details, thinking to deal with emotional issues

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Intellectualization

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Situations and people colored with sexual overtones that were not present

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Sexualization

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Expelling unacceptable ideas from entering consciousness

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Repression

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Separating an idea from its associated emotion

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Isolation of Affect

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Transferring an emotion associated to another where expression is more permitted, less forbidden

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Displacement

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Unacceptable wishes are transformed into the complete opposite

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Reaction Formation

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Attempt to justify behaviors that are unacceptable

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Intellectualization

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Socially adaptive and useful integration of personal needs and motives

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Mature

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Delaying of immediate gratification by planning and thinking about future achievements

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Anticipation

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

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Altruism

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Take back an unconscious behavior or thought that is unacceptable or hurtful

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Undoing

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Delay paying attention to an emotion or need to cope with present reality

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Suppression

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Internalizing the qualities of another person and becoming like the person

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Identification

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Channeling of unacceptable impulse into acceptable ones

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Sublimation

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

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Humor

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Eliminate pleasurable aspects of experiences

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Asceticism

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3 Classes of Coping Mechanisms

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Consciously seeking social support Conscious cognitive strategies Adaptive involuntary coping mechanisms

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7 Involuntary Coping Mechanisms

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``` Defensive Deregulation Action Major Image Distortion Avowal Minor Image Distortion Mental Inhibition High Adaptive Level ```

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Distortions in the image of self employed to regulate self-esteem

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Minor Image Distortion

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Compromise function; keep potentially threatening out of awareness

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Mental Inhibtion Level

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Promote an optimum balance; maximizes gratification

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High Adaptive Level

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Dealing by action or withdrawal

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Action Level

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Pronounced break with objective reality

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Defensive Deregulation

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Keeping unpleasant or unacceptable stressors, impulses, ideas, affects out of awareness without misattribution

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Disavowal

Question 49

Gross distortion or misattribution of the image of self or others

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Major Image Distorting Level