Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, a person will get into trouble to get attention)

Answer 1

Acting out

Question 2

Enables one to make up for a real or fancied deficiencies (a person who stutters becomes very expressive writer; a short man assumes a cocky, overbearing manner)

Answer 2

Compensation

Question 3

Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (pain, deafness, blindness, paralysis, etc)

Answer 3

Conversion

Question 4

Deterioration of existing defenses

Answer 4

Decompesenation

Question 5

A primitive defense; inability to acknowledge true signifance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable

Answer 5

Denial