Defense Mechanism Flashcards
To overcome
Compensation
Unattainable to attainable
Substitution
Failure to acknowledge
Denial
Less threatening object
Displacement
Common defense mechanism of Depressed patient
Introjection
Common to abusive
Displacement
Distortion of unconscious feelings or wishes
Fantasy
Integration of someone else’s personality
Identification
Arrest of maturation
Fixation
Self-blaming
Introjection
Blaming others
Projection
Common to Mania
Projection
Uses intellectual concept with explanation and qoute
Intellectualization
Making justifiable reasons
Rationalization
Expression of opposite feelings (Plastic)
Reaction Formation
Back to earlier patterns of behaviors
Regression
Common to Schizoprenia
Regression
Unconscious forgetting
Repression
Conscious forgetting
Suppression
Negative to positive
Sublimation
To erase
Undoing
Refusal to accept reality
Denial
Overuse of cognitive approach
Intellectualization
Redirecting of thoughts and feelings to a safer object
Displacement
Emotional problems are converted into physical problem
Conversion
Arrest of maturation
Fixation
“I am so mad at what she did. Im going to write poem about anger”
Sublimation
