Defense mechanisms Flashcards
Covering up your feelings with some other feeling? (i.e. tantrum)
Acting Out
Avoiding the awareness of some painful reality? (i.e. new AIDS patient reaction)
Denial
Scapegoat (i.e. Mother yells at her child, because her husband yelled at her)
Displacement
Drastic change in personality that can lead to dissociative identity disorder.
Dissociation
Adults fixating on video games
Fixation
Partially remaining at a more childish level of development
Abused child identifies with an abuser.
Identification
Describing murder in graphic detail with no emotional response.
Isolation
Separating feelings from ideas and events.
Disgruntled employee is repeatedly late to work
Passive aggression
A man who wants another woman thinks his wife is cheating on him
Projection
Attributing an unacceptable internal impulse to an external source
After getting fired, claiming that the job was not important anyway.
Rationalization
A patient with sexual thoughts enters a monastery
Reaction formation
A patient who bedwets in a previously toilet-trained child when hospitalized.
Regression
Turning back the maturational clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world
A 20-year-old does not remember going to counseling during his parents’ divorce 10 years earlier
Repression
Involuntarily withholding an idea
A patient says that all the nurses are cold and insensitive but that the doctors are warm and friendly. If this is extreme what does it become?
Splitting
Believing that people are either all good or all bad
Borderline Personality Disorder
Mafia boss who did alot of crime makes large donation to charity.
Altruism
