Defense Mech, Vertrees

Question 1

Defense Mechanism definitions

Answer 1

unconscious protection from emotional pain
keeps conflict out of conscious mind
dec anxiety
maintain sense safety and self esteem

Question 2

Denial

Answer 2

refuses to acknowledge truth
normal in children
in adults could indicate severe pathology

Question 3

projections

Answer 3

attributing own personally unacceptable feelings to others

Question 4

clinical syndromes with projection

Answer 4

paranoid delusions and hallucinations

Question 5

acting out

Answer 5

avoiding painful feelings by behaving in attention getting socially innappropriate manner

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somatization

Answer 6

turning an unacceptable feeling or impulse into physical Sx

HA before work because anxious

Question 7

what is splitting

Answer 7

believing peiple or events are either all bad or all good because of intolerance of ambiguity

Question 8

what is undoing

Answer 8

adopting acts which symbolically cancel or reverse previous unwanted act
handwashing compulsion after child develops pneumonia
abnormal: compulsive or obsessional thoughts

Question 9

what are narcissistic defense mechanisms

Answer 9

denial

projection

Question 10

what are immature defense mechanisms

Answer 10

acting out
somatization
splitting
undoing

Question 11

what is displacement

Answer 11

unconscious transfer emotions from unacceptable to acceptable person
cant yell at boss, yell at spouse

Question 12

dissociation

Answer 12

separation function of mental illnesses, mentally separating part of consciousness from reality (forgetting events have occurred)

Question 13

clinical manifestaion of dissociation

Answer 13

dissociative disorders

Question 14

intellectualization

Answer 14

using minds higher functions to avoid experiencing uncomfortable emotions

Question 15

isolation of affect

Answer 15

separating feelings assoc with significant uncomfortable event

Question 16

physician Dx pancreatic CA only talks about stats of illness with colleagues and family

Answer 16

intellectualization

Question 17

a person who expresses no emotion when talking about death of loved one

Answer 17

isolation of affect

Question 18

reaction formation

Answer 18

denying unacceptable feelings and adopting opposite attitudes
being friendly to someone you don’t like

Question 19

OCD is an example of what defense mech

Answer 19

reaction formation

Question 20

neurotic defenses

Answer 20

reaction formation
isolation of affect
intellectualization
dissociation
displacement

Question 21

Mature defenses

Answer 21

protect person from fear and anxiety without social cose and maybe with benefit
altruism
sublimation
humor
suppression

Question 22

altruism

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unselfishly assisting other to avoid negative feelings

i.e low self esteem helps in soup kitchen on day off

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sublimation

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rerouting unacceptable drive in socially acceptable way

man whose son killed by drunk driver speaks to high schools about dangers of drunk driving

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humor

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expression of feeling without causing discomfort

Question 25

man who has leg amputate jokes about one legged people

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humor defense

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suppression

Answer 26

consciously putting aside but not repressing unwanted feelings
kids around now so stop thinking about wanting divorce temporarily

Question 27

suppression

Answer 27

consciously putting aside but not repressing unwanted feelings
kids around now so stop thinking about wanting divorce temporarily

Question 28

woman cheating on husband suspects husband cheating on her

defense mech

Answer 28

projection

Question 29

military man has out of body experience watching himself rescue buds

Answer 29

dissociation