Defense Mechanism Flashcards
Attribute feelings or thoughts onto someone else
Projection
Avoid becoming aware of painful reality
Denial
All good or all bad. Black or white, no grays
Splitting
Temporary inability to remember
Blocking
Psychological problems become physical
Somatization
Return to earlier development stage
Regression
Unconscious imitation
Introjection
Defense mechanisms under anxiety
RAID si PIDRRU kaya nagka anxiety
Repression
Acting out
Isolation of affect
Displacement
Passive aggressive
Intellectualization
Dissociation
Rationalization
Reaction formation
Undoing
Emotion or drive shifted to another person
Displacement
Bad idea or feeling eliminated from consciousness
Repression
Reality accepted without emotional response
Isolation of affect
Use of intellectual process to avoid affective expressions
Intellectualization
An attempt to avoid expressing actual emotion associated with a stressful situation by using the intellectual process of logic, reasoning, and analysis
Intellectualization
Emotional outburst, cover up reality
Acting out
Explaining an unacceptable behavior or feeling in a rational or logical manner, avoiding true reasons for the behavior
Rationalization
Unacceptable impulse transformed in its opposite
Reaction formation
When a person feels an urge to do or say something unacceptable and then does or says the opposite of what they really want
Reaction formation
Reaction of reaction formation, acting out the reverse of the unacceptable behavior
Undoing
Indirectly expressing aggression towards others by giving the appearance of compliance and making resistance, resentment, and hostility
Passive aggressive
Separates from one experience, like outer body experience
Dissociation
Using comedy to overtly express feelings and thoughts without personal discomfort and without producing an unpleasant effect on the others
Humor
Freud suggested that this can be regarded as the highest of these defensive processes
Humor
Channeling unwanted or unacceptable urges into an admissible or productive outlets
Sublimation
Conscious forgetting, forget and remember
Suppression
The only conscious mechanism
Suppression
The healthiest of the mechanism
Sublimation
Pyromaniac starts working in a special effect company in Hollywood, where he can blow things up
Sublimation
Pyromaniac becomes a firefighter
Reaction formation
Pyromaniac putting down the fire
Undoing
_______ defense mechanisms are the first to occur developmentally
Primitive
Primitive defense mechanisms include:
Regression
Splitting
Denial
Projection
Fixation
Fantasy
Identification
Passive aggression
Rationalization
Reaction formation
Idealization
Acting out
Neurotic defenses include
Intellectualization
Undoing
Repression
Dissociation
Reaction formation
Displacement
Immature defense mechanism include
Denial
Rationalization
Projection
Splitting
Acting out
Four level classification of defense mechanisms by George Eman Vaillant
Level I – pathological defences (psychotic denial, delusional projection)
Level II – immature defences (fantasy, projection, passive aggression, acting out)
Level III – neurotic defences (intellectualization, reaction formation, dissociation, displacement, repression)
Level IV – mature defences (humour, sublimation, suppression, altruism, anticipation)
Four level classification of defense mechanisms by George Eman Vaillant
Level I – pathological defences (psychotic denial, delusional projection)
Level II – immature defences (fantasy, projection, passive aggression, acting out)
Level III – neurotic defences (intellectualization, reaction formation, dissociation, displacement, repression)
Level IV – mature defences (humour, sublimation, suppression, altruism, anticipation)
