Defense Mechanism Flashcards
Is an unconscious psychological operation that functions to protect a person from anxiety producing thoughts and feelings related to internal conflicts and outer stressors.
Defense mechanism
Covering up for weakness by overemphasizing or making up a desire trait
Compensation
Unconscious expression of intrapsychic conflict symbolically symptoms
Conversion is the development of physical symptoms in response to stress without underlying medical cause
Conversion
Unconscious refusal to admit an unacceptable idea or behavior
Denial
The unconscious separation of painful feeling and emotions from an acceptable idea, situation, or objects. You may feel detached to from your body or feel as though the world around you is unreal
Dissolation
Discharging pent up feeling to a less threatening object
Displacement
Conscious or unconscious attempt to model oneself after a respected person
Identification
Using only logical explanation without feelings or an affective component
Intellectualization
Unconsciously incorporating wishes, values, attitudes of others as if they were your own
Introjection
Voluntary exclusions from awareness, anxiety-producing feelings, ideas and situations
Suppression
Attempts to make or prove that one’s behaviors are justifiable
Rationalization
A conscious behavior that is exact opposite of unconscious feeling
Reaction formation
Channeling instinctual drives into acceptable activities
Sublimation
Blaming someone else for one’s difficulties
Projection
Doing something to counteract or make up for transgression wrong doing
Undoing
