Defense Mechanisms Flashcards
Makes up for real or fancied deficiencies.
A shirt man with a cocky manor
Compensation
Amnesia or forgetting serving to banish unacceptable thoughts from consciousness
Repression
Repressed urge disguised as a disturbance if body functions of sensory, voluntary nervous system (blind, deaf, paralysis)
Conversion
Primitive defense inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, behaviors, feelings that are consciously intolerable
Denial
Directing a feeling toward another person or situation that is not its real object, this permitting expression in a less threatening situation.
Displacement
Kick the dog
What is a process that enables a person to splint mental functions to allow them to express forbidden impulses without taking responsibility for actions?
Dissociation
Overestimation of an admired or attribute if another . May be conscious or unconscious.
Idealization
Mechanism where a person patterns himself after a significant other.
Identification
Mastering anxiety by identifying wih a powerful aggressor to counteract feelings of helpless ness and to feel powerful.
Identification with the aggressor
Primitive mechanism in which psychic representation if a person is figuratively ingested.
Incorporation
Loss of motivation to engage in activity avoided as it might stir up conflict over forbidden impulses. (Writing, learning, work blocks, or social shyness)
Social shyness
Loves or hated external objects are symbolically absorbed within self.
Introjection
Unacceptable impulse idea act is separated from its original memory source, thereby removing the original emotional charge associated with it.
Isolation of affect
Primitive defense of moving own feeling to someone else. The other person has your thoughts
Projection
Not unconscious. Giving believe able explanation for irrational behavior: motivated by unacceptable unconscious wishes or by defenses to cope with such wishes.
Rationalization
Person adopts affects ideas attitudes behaviors that are opposite if those he harbors consciously or unconsciously. Being excessively sweet to mask anger.
Reaction formation
Partial or symbolic return to more infantile patters of acting or thinking
Regression
Potentially malady price feelings or behaviors are diverted into social acceptable adaptive channels. Turn negative into a positive
Subliminal ion
Unattainable or unacceptable goal emotion or object is replaced by one more attainable or acceptable
Substitution
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.
Symbolization
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.
Undoing
Defense to deflect hostile aggression or other unacceptable impulses from another self.
Turing against self
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.
Splitting
Utilized by persons with border line personality organization. Unconsciously perceiving other behavior as a reflection of ones own identity.
Projective identification
Borderline uses it; person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or others.
Devaluation
Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather thank feelings
Acting out
Deterioration of existing defenses
Decomposition
Client towards worker
Transference
Worker towards client
Counter transference
Exclude them from conscious things that are psychologically disturbing
Suppression- not a defense mechanism
