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Defense Mechanism Flashcards

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1
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Attribute feelings or thoughts onto someone else

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Projection

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Avoid becoming aware of painful reality

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Denial

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All good or all bad. Black or white, no grays

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Splitting

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Temporary inability to remember

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Blocking

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Psychological problems become physical

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Somatization

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Return to earlier development stage

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Regression

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Unconscious imitation

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Introjection

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Defense mechanisms under anxiety

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RAID si PIDRRU kaya nagka anxiety

Repression
Acting out
Isolation of affect
Displacement

Passive aggressive
Intellectualization
Dissociation
Rationalization
Reaction formation
Undoing

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Emotion or drive shifted to another person

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Displacement

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Bad idea or feeling eliminated from consciousness

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Repression

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Reality accepted without emotional response

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Isolation of affect

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Use of intellectual process to avoid affective expressions

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Intellectualization

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An attempt to avoid expressing actual emotion associated with a stressful situation by using the intellectual process of logic, reasoning, and analysis

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Intellectualization

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Emotional outburst, cover up reality

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Acting out

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Explaining an unacceptable behavior or feeling in a rational or logical manner, avoiding true reasons for the behavior

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Rationalization

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Unacceptable impulse transformed in its opposite

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Reaction formation

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When a person feels an urge to do or say something unacceptable and then does or says the opposite of what they really want

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Reaction formation

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Reaction of reaction formation, acting out the reverse of the unacceptable behavior

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Undoing

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Indirectly expressing aggression towards others by giving the appearance of compliance and making resistance, resentment, and hostility

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Passive aggressive

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Separates from one experience, like outer body experience

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Dissociation

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Using comedy to overtly express feelings and thoughts without personal discomfort and without producing an unpleasant effect on the others

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Humor

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Freud suggested that this can be regarded as the highest of these defensive processes

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Humor

23
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Channeling unwanted or unacceptable urges into an admissible or productive outlets

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Sublimation

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Conscious forgetting, forget and remember

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Suppression

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The only conscious mechanism

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Suppression

26
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The healthiest of the mechanism

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Sublimation

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Pyromaniac starts working in a special effect company in Hollywood, where he can blow things up

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Sublimation

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Pyromaniac becomes a firefighter

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Reaction formation

29
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Pyromaniac putting down the fire

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Undoing

30
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_______ defense mechanisms are the first to occur developmentally

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Primitive

31
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Primitive defense mechanisms include:

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Regression
Splitting
Denial
Projection
Fixation
Fantasy
Identification
Passive aggression
Rationalization
Reaction formation
Idealization
Acting out

32
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Neurotic defenses include

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Intellectualization
Undoing
Repression
Dissociation
Reaction formation
Displacement

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Immature defense mechanism include

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Denial
Rationalization
Projection
Splitting
Acting out

34
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Four level classification of defense mechanisms by George Eman Vaillant

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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)

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Four level classification of defense mechanisms by George Eman Vaillant

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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)

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