Defense Mechanisms Flashcards

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Makes up for real or fancied deficiencies.

A shirt man with a cocky manor

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Compensation

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Amnesia or forgetting serving to banish unacceptable thoughts from consciousness

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Repression

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Repressed urge disguised as a disturbance if body functions of sensory, voluntary nervous system (blind, deaf, paralysis)

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Conversion

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Primitive defense inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, behaviors, feelings that are consciously intolerable

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Denial

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Directing a feeling toward another person or situation that is not its real object, this permitting expression in a less threatening situation.

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Displacement

Kick the dog

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What is a process that enables a person to splint mental functions to allow them to express forbidden impulses without taking responsibility for actions?

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Dissociation

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Overestimation of an admired or attribute if another . May be conscious or unconscious.

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Idealization

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Mechanism where a person patterns himself after a significant other.

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Identification

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Mastering anxiety by identifying wih a powerful aggressor to counteract feelings of helpless ness and to feel powerful.

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Identification with the aggressor

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Primitive mechanism in which psychic representation if a person is figuratively ingested.

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Incorporation

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Loss of motivation to engage in activity avoided as it might stir up conflict over forbidden impulses. (Writing, learning, work blocks, or social shyness)

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Social shyness

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Loves or hated external objects are symbolically absorbed within self.

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Introjection

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Unacceptable impulse idea act is separated from its original memory source, thereby removing the original emotional charge associated with it.

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Isolation of affect

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Primitive defense of moving own feeling to someone else. The other person has your thoughts

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Projection

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Not unconscious. Giving believe able explanation for irrational behavior: motivated by unacceptable unconscious wishes or by defenses to cope with such wishes.

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Rationalization

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Person adopts affects ideas attitudes behaviors that are opposite if those he harbors consciously or unconsciously. Being excessively sweet to mask anger.

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Reaction formation

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Partial or symbolic return to more infantile patters of acting or thinking

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Regression

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Potentially malady price feelings or behaviors are diverted into social acceptable adaptive channels. Turn negative into a positive

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Subliminal ion

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Unattainable or unacceptable goal emotion or object is replaced by one more attainable or acceptable

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Substitution

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Mental representation stands for some other thing or attribute. It underlies dream formation and other symptoms with a link between the latent meaning and the symbol.

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Symbolization

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A person uses words or actions to symbolically reverse unacceptable thoughts feels or actions. I e a person compulsively washing hands to deal with obsessive thought.

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Defense to deflect hostile aggression or other unacceptable impulses from another self.

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Turing against self

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Associated survey. Orderliness personality organization in which a person perceives self and others as all good or all bad. A person cannot integrate the good and bad in people.

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Utilized by persons with border line personality organization. Unconsciously perceiving other behavior as a reflection of ones own identity.

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Projective identification

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Borderline uses it; person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or others.
Devaluation
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Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather thank feelings
Acting out
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Deterioration of existing defenses
Decomposition
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Client towards worker
Transference
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Worker towards client
Counter transference
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Exclude them from conscious things that are psychologically disturbing
Suppression- not a defense mechanism