Defense mechanisms

Question 1

Conversion

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Introjection

Answer 2

Loved or hated external objects are symbolically absorbed within self (severe depression–unconscious hatred is turned toward self

Question 3

Isolation of affect

Answer 3

Unacceptable impulse, idea, or act is separated from its original memory source, thereby removing the original emotional charge associated with it

Question 4

Projective identification

Answer 4

A form of projection utilized by personal with BPD–unconsciously perceiving others’ behavior as a reflection of one’s own identity

Question 5

Reaction formation

Answer 5

Person adopts affects, ideas, attitudes, or behaviors that are opposites of those he or she harbors consciously or unconsciously (being excessively sweet to mark unconscious anger)

Question 6

Repression

Answer 6

Expressed clinically by amnesia or symptomatic forgetting serving to banish unacceptable ideas, fantasies, affects, or impulses from consciousness

Question 7

Splitting

Answer 7

Defensive mechanism associated with BPD in which a person perceives self and others as ‘all good’ or ‘all bad’