Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

The unconscious adoption of ideas or attitudes from others

Answer 1

Introjection

Question 2

occurs when a person projects feelings or characteristics onto another person

Answer 2

Projection

Question 3

a defense mechanism that redirects unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable behaviors

• healthy organization trait

Answer 3

Sublimation

Question 4

the tendency to demonize others, and a struggle integrating with conflicting feelings

Answer 4

Splitting

Question 5

projecting thoughts and feelings onto others, and inducing those feelings in the other

• example: a patient claims “you’re critical of me” and therapist replies “maybe you had a critical mother and project that onto me”, to which patient replies “yeah, just my luck to get a therapist like my mother, asshole”– now therapist is feeling critical; counter-transference

Answer 5

Projective Identification