Defense Mechanisms - Vertrees

Question 1

defense mechanism

Answer 1

unconscious mental process serving to provide relief from internal emotional conflict or anxiety

Question 2

narcissistic

Answer 2

psychotic defenses

denial and projection

Question 3

denial

Answer 3

avoid awareness of painful aspect of reality - negate sensory data

denial abolishes external reality

Question 4

projection

Answer 4

perceiving and reacting to unacceptable inner impulse and their derivatives as though outside the self

frank delusion of external reality - perception of ones feelings in another and subsequent acting on that perception

Question 5

immature defense mechanisms

Answer 5

acting out
blocking
passive-aggresive
regression

Question 6

acting out

Answer 6

giving into impulse to avoid tension that would result from postponement of expression

Question 7

blocking

Answer 7

temporary or transient inhibiting thinking

tension arises when impulse, affect, or thought is inhibited

Question 8

passive-aggressive behavior

Answer 8

aggression towards others through passive, masochism, and turning against the self

Question 9

regression

Answer 9

return to earlier phase of function - to avoid tension and conflict evoked at present level of development

Question 10

neurotic defenses

Answer 10

common in normal healthy adults in moderation

controlling
displacement
externalization
inhibition
intellectualization
isolation - of affect
rationilization
dissociation
reaction formation
repression

Question 11

immature defenses

Answer 11

in early adulthood - do less as mature

personality disorder - retain into adulthood

Question 12

controlling

Answer 12

manage or regulate events or objects in environment to minimize anxiety and to resolve inner conflict

Question 13

displacement

Answer 13

shift emotion or drive cathexis from one idea or object to another that resembles original

symbolic representation of origional idea

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externalization

Answer 14

perceive external world and in external objects - elements of ones personality

impulses, conflicts, moods, attitudes, styles of thinking

Question 15

inhibition

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consciously limiting or renouncing some ego functions

to evade anxiety arising out of conflict with superego

Question 16

intellectualization

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excessive use of intellectual processes to avoid affective expression or experience

focus on inanimate to avoid intimacy with people

focus on extenal reality to avoid inner feelings

Question 17

isolation of affect

Answer 17

splitting or separation of idea from affect that accompanies it

Question 18

rationalization

Answer 18

rational explanation in attempt to justify attitudes, belief, or behavior

Question 19

dissociation

Answer 19

modify personal character to avoid emotional distress

fugue states and hysteria

Question 20

reaction formation

Answer 20

transforming unacceptable impulse into its opposite

obsessional character

Question 21

repression

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expelling or withholding from consciousness an idea or feeling

curbing of idea and feelings before they have attained consciousness

secondary - excludes from awareness what once was experienced

differ from suppression - effect conscious inhibition of impulses - to point of losing and not just postponing cherished goals

Question 22

mature defense

Answer 22

health and adaptive throughout life

Question 23

altruism

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using gratifying service to undergo vicarious experience

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anticipation

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anticipating and planning for future inner discomfort

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asceticism

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eliminate pleasurable effect of experiences

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humor

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using comedy to overtly express feelings and thoughts without personal discomfort

Question 27

sublimation

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achieve impulse gratification and retention of goals - alter social objectionable aim or object to socially acceptable one instinct channeled and directed toward significant object or goal

Question 28

suppression

Answer 28

postponing attention to conscious impulse or conflict deliberately cut off - but not avoided

Question 29

suppression

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postponing attention to conscious impulse or conflict deliberately cut off - but not avoided

Question 30

displacement

Answer 30

can't tell someone what you think - so take it out on someone else

Question 31

projection

Answer 31

paranoia borderline personality under stress false accusation

Question 32

floating outside body, watch oneself act, feel no emotions, nothing around him was real, watching movie of myself

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dissociation depersonalization and derealization in severe stress situations

Question 33

tell story of war trauma with no emotion

Answer 33

isolation of affect

Question 34

man wants to have sex with and do drugs instead - starts anti-gay and anti-drug campaigns

Answer 34

reaction formation goal or desire - but can't - so defend against it - opposite in socially acceptable way

Question 35

sublimation

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not opposing drive - finding socially acceptable way to do it like to hit other people - become boxer

Question 36

have impulse - and just go do it

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acting out

Question 37

anticipation

Answer 37

preparing for first date anxiety

Question 38

suppression

Answer 38

acknowledge conflict - but put it aside - deal with it at appropriate time

Question 39

repression

Answer 39

not acknowledging conflict

Question 40

OCD

Answer 40

undoing, magical thinking

Question 41

paranoid

Answer 41

projection

Question 42

borderline personality disorder

Answer 42

splitting, projection, acting out

Question 43

most therapies

Answer 43

work to tear down immature defense - replace with mature ones

Question 44

splitting

Answer 44

see others as wholly good or wholly bad cannot recognize individual as good and bad mixture - which is what we all are

Question 45

under stress

Answer 45

people regress to lower levels

Question 46

denial

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with severe illness - fail to understand severity or parent fail to understand severity of child illness

Question 47

projection

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paranoid delusion with hallucinations - in adult imaginary playmate - childhood

Question 48

dishonest people

Answer 48

often suspect you of the same

Question 49

acting out

Answer 49

drug use or sexual promiscuity

Question 50

man anxious about new job develops headache first day of work

Answer 50

somatization

Question 51

undoing

Answer 51

woman who was housekeeper - hand washing compulsion after child develops pneumonia

Question 52

man son killed by drunk drive - attacks drunken street person

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displacement

Question 53

women sexually abused as child - two distinct personalities in adulthood

Answer 53

dissociation

Question 54

physician who gets pancreatic cancer diagnosis obsesses over statistics

Answer 54

intellectualization

Question 55

expression of no emotion when talking about dead family member

Answer 55

isolation of affect

Question 56

being friendly toward someone you don't like

Answer 56

reaction formation

Question 57

man son killed drunk driver - speaks at high schools about drunk driving

Answer 57

sublimation