Defense Mechanisms Flashcards

1
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Tantrums.

A

Acting out

expressing unacceptable feelings and thoughts through actions

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Temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional distress.

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Dissociation

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Avoiding the awareness of some painful reality: common in AIDS or cancer pts

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denial

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4
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A mother yells at her child b/c her husband yelled at her.

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Displacement (transferring avoided ideas/feelings to some neutral person or object)

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5
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Partially remaining at a more childish level of development

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Fixation (men fixating on sports games)

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6
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Abused child grows up and abuses his son

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Identification

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7
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Describing a murder in graphic detail with no emotional response.

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Isolation (of affect)

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8
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A man who wants another woman thinks his wife is cheating on him.

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Projection

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9
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After getting fired, claiming that the job was not important anyway.

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rationalization (proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame)

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10
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Turning back the maturational clock and going back to earlier ways of dealing with the world (seen in children under stress such as illness)

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Regression

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11
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Involuntary withholding an idea or feeling from concious awareness

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Repression

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12
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Mafia boss makes a large donation to charity

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Altruism (alleviating guildty feelings by unsolicited generosity toward others)

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13
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Nervous medical student jokes about boards

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Humor (appreciating amusing nature of an anxiety-provoking situation)

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14
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Teenagers’ aggression toward his father is redirected to perform well in sports

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Sublimation (replacing unacceptable wish w/ another course of action that doesn’t conflict w/ value system)

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15
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Intentional withholding of an idea from conscious awareness

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Suppression

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16
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What are the “mature” defense mechanisms?

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Mature adults wear a SASH: Sublimation, Altruism, Suppression, Humor