Defense Mechanisms Flashcards
What is a primitive defense mechanism when you revert back to an early function?
Regression
What is a primitive defense mechanism when you don’t acknowledge reality?
Denial
What is a primitive defense mechanism of extreme behavior expresses feelings?
Acting out
What is a primitive defense mechanism of loss of track of time, place or situation?
Dissociation
What is a primitive defense mechanism where you attribute feelings to another?
Projection
What is a primitive defense mechanism where you concert unwanted feelings to their opposite?
Reaction formation
What is a more mature defense mechanism of unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts or feelings?
Repression
What is a more mature defense mechanism where you direct feelings toward another person?
Displacement
What is a more mature defense mechanism where you use over emphasis of thinking to avoid difficult feelings?
Intellectualization
What is a more mature defense mechanism where you create a reframe to protect against difficult feelings?
Rationalization
What is a more mature defense mechanism where you attempt to take back expression of feeling while doing opposite?
Undoing
What is a mature defense mechanism where you channel unacceptable feelings into acceptable activity often that is helpful or productive?
Sublimation (humor, fantasy other forms)
What mature defense mechanism do you embrace capacity without psychological emphasis on deficits?
Compensation
In what defense mechanism do you use firm, direct, respectful expression of needs and feelings?
Assertiveness
What are 4 hallmarks of psychodynamic psychotherapy?
Therapeutic relationship, insight into defenses, experience of underlying emotion, emergence of experience of grief
