Defense Mechanisms Flashcards

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Repression

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Painful feelings are conscious initially and the. Forgotten, but return occasionally. Repression can range from momentary memory lapses to forgetting the details of a catastrophic event, such as a murder or an earthquake.

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Denial

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Unpleasant reality is ignored, and a realistic interpretation of potentially threatening events are replaced by benign but inaccurate ones.

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Suppression

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Unpleasant feelings are suppressed through a conscious effort to ignore them, considered one of the more mature and healthy defense mechanisms.

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Projection

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In projection, the undesirable feelings are attributed to another person or persons

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Displacement

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Object displacement, anger or another emotion is initially felt toward a person against whom it is unsafe to express it

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Reaction Formation

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Involves behavior that is diametrically opposed to the impulses or feelings that one is repressing.

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Regression

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When confronted by stressful events, people sometimes abandon coping strategies and revert to patterns of behavior used earlier in development

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Fixation

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People with an oral fixation have problems with drinking, smoking, and nail biting when they are experiencing stressful events.

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Identification

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Taking on the characteristics of someone else

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Rationalization

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Is an attempt to deny ones true motives by using a reason that is more logical or socially acceptable than ones own reasons.

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Isolation

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It involves compartmentalizing ones experience so that an event becomes separated from the feelings that associated with it, allowing it to be part of your conscious mind without the threat of painful feelings

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Sublimation

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Involves re handling the energy connected with an unacceptable impulse into one that is more socially acceptable

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Compensation

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Devoting unusual efforts to achievement in order to overcome feeling of inferiority

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