Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

Displacement

Answer 1

Place unwanted/unpleasant feelings onto someone less threatening or an innocent bystander.

Question 2

Projection

Answer 2

Taking your emotions and placing it onto others who do not have these emotions

Question 3

Introjection

Answer 3

To place someone’s feelings, characteristics, or traits into yourself

Question 4

Projective Identification

Answer 4

Seen in Borderline Personality Disorder

Someone who identifies others as having “their” feelings, however, they do not show those feelings.

Question 5

Splitting

Answer 5

Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder identify a person as either all good or all bad

Question 6

Rationalization

Answer 6

Making excuses or justifying actions to avoid unwanted feelings

Question 7

Denial

Answer 7

Refusing to acknowledge the truth or facts

Question 8

Repression/Suppression

Answer 8

Putting painful thought and memories away and forgetting them

Question 9

Sublimation

Answer 9

A healthy redirection of an emotion

Ex: you release anger through kickboxing

Question 10

Reaction-Formation

Answer 10

Turn painful feelings into the opposing

Ex: a person has a sudden loss shows a happy mood

Question 11

Undoing

Answer 11

Taking back unwanted behaviors with praises or gifts

Question 12

Isolation of Affect

Answer 12

Expressing no emotions when confornted with difficult events. No emotions during a crisis