Defense Mechanisms

Question 0

Denial

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

Question 1

Defense mechanisms

Answer 1

• Sigmund Freud
• allow negative feelings to be lessened without an alteration of the situation that is producing them, often by distorting the reality of that situation in some way( denial, rejection)

Question 2

Repression

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

Question 3

Suppression

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• Unpleasant feelings are suppressed through a conscious effort to ignore them.
• Suppression differs from repression and denial in that the undesirable feelings are available but deliberately ignored.
• Considered the more mature and healthy defense mechanisms

Question 4

Projection

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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

Question 6

Reaction formation

Answer 6

Killing with kindness

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Regression

Answer 7

When confronted but 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,mans 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 owns reason

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Isolation

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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.

Not reacting in an expected way

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Sublimation

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Re channeling the energy connected with an unacceptable impulse into one that is more social,t acceptable

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Compensation

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Devoting unusual efforts to achievement in order to overcome feelings if inferiority