Defense Mechanisms Flashcards

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Primitive Defenses - Examples

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Denial, reaction formation, projection (more out of touch with reality)

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Mature Defenses - Examples

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Represent higher levels of functioning - sublimation, undoing, rationalization, displacement, identification, intellectualization

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Rationalization

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Plausible reasons justify and action or an opinion - ex: Gets turned down for a date and says the person is really snobby; not getting a job: I’ll be better off with another company

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Repression

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Refuses to let into awareness unacceptable impulses but remains unconsciously operative in behavior

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Displacement

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Affect is transferred from one object to another - e.g., eating lollipops compulsively after having quit smoking; yells at wife instead of yelling at boss who is angry at

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Identification

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Qualities of an external object are absorbed into one’s personality (e.g., becoming a lawyer because dad is a lawyer)

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Intellectualization

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Process by which content is separated from repressed affect

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Asceticism

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Characterized by rigor and self-denial

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Reaction Formation

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A process by which unacceptable impulses are expressed as their opposites (e.g., being overly nice to supervisor that you are angry with; acting aloof around someone romantically interested in)

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Introjection and Internalization

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Introjection is the internalization of outside events or characteristics of other people (e.g., victim using to identify with aggressor’s behaviors to help protect himself); The taking in or swallowing whole of a characteristic or trait of another person or outside events

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Projection

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Places unacceptable feelings from the person feeling them onto another person (e.g., someone who is anxious complaining about another’s anxiety)

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Denial

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Distorts reality and doesn’t acknowledge emotion

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Sublimation

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A person using sublimation will displace unacceptable instincts for constructive and socially acceptable behaviors (e.g., kickboxing to deal with aggression)

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Undoing

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Process by which we avoid being punished for undesirable thoughts or actions (e.g., spouse unconsciously undoes adulterous acts by buying partner lavish gifts; overly nice to someone insulated in mind)

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