Defense Mechanisms Flashcards
Repression
Painful feelings are concours initially, but then forgotten and return occasionally.
Ex: forgetting the details of a really bad car wreak.
Denial
Unpleasant reality is ignored and a realistic interpretation of potentially threatning events are replaced by benign but inaccurate ones.
Suppression
Stuffing away feelings.
Conscious effort to ignore bad feelings.
Projection
The undesirable feelings are attributed to another person or persons.
An angry person believes others are angry at him/her
Displacement
Object displacement, anger or another emotion is initially felt toward a person against whom it is unsafe to express it.
Taking frustration out on objects or people.
Reaction formation
Involves behavior that is diametrically opposed to the impulses or feelings that one is repressing.
Kill the person you don’t like with kindness.
Regression
When confronted by stressful events, people so,stiles abandon coping strategies and revert to patterns of behavior used earlier in development.
Fixation
People with a moral fixation have problems with: drinking, thoughts, smoking, biting nails, when they experience stressful events.
Identification
Taking on the characteristics of someone else.
Ex: taking on the characteristics of someone important- parent, sports celeb., etc.
Rationalization
An attempt to deny ones true motives by using a reason that is more logical or socially acceptable than ones own reasons.
“I didn’t want to play soccer anyways”
Isolation
It involved compartmentalizing owned experience so that an event becomes separated from the feelings that associated with it, allowing it to be part of your conscious mind.
Sublimation
Rechanneling those negative energys that is connected with an unacceptable impulse into one that is more socially acceptable.
Compensation
Devoting unusual efforts to achievement in reorder to overcome feelings of inferiority.
Eustress
Good stress
Distress
Bad stress
