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Defense Mechanisms - Vertrees Flashcards

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defense mechanism

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

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narcissistic

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psychotic defenses

denial and projection

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denial

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avoid awareness of painful aspect of reality - negate sensory data

denial abolishes external reality

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projection

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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

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immature defense mechanisms

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acting out
blocking
passive-aggresive
regression

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acting out

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

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blocking

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temporary or transient inhibiting thinking

tension arises when impulse, affect, or thought is inhibited

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passive-aggressive behavior

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

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regression

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

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neurotic defenses

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common in normal healthy adults in moderation

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

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in early adulthood - do less as mature

personality disorder - retain into adulthood

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controlling

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

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displacement

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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

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

impulses, conflicts, moods, attitudes, styles of thinking

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inhibition

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consciously limiting or renouncing some ego functions

to evade anxiety arising out of conflict with superego

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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

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isolation of affect

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splitting or separation of idea from affect that accompanies it

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rationalization

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

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dissociation

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modify personal character to avoid emotional distress

fugue states and hysteria

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reaction formation

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transforming unacceptable impulse into its opposite

obsessional character

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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

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mature defense

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health and adaptive throughout life

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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

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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

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suppression

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postponing attention to conscious impulse or conflict

deliberately cut off - but not avoided

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suppression

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postponing attention to conscious impulse or conflict

deliberately cut off - but not avoided

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displacement

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

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projection

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paranoia

borderline personality under stress

false accusation

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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

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tell story of war trauma with no emotion

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isolation of affect

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man wants to have sex with and do drugs

instead - starts anti-gay and anti-drug campaigns

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reaction formation

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

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sublimation

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not opposing drive - finding socially acceptable way to do it

like to hit other people - become boxer

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have impulse - and just go do it

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acting out

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anticipation

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preparing for first date anxiety

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suppression

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

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repression

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not acknowledging conflict

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OCD

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undoing, magical thinking

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paranoid

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projection

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borderline personality disorder

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splitting, projection, acting out

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most therapies

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work to tear down immature defense - replace with mature ones

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splitting

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see others as wholly good or wholly bad

cannot recognize individual as good and bad mixture - which is what we all are

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under stress

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people regress to lower levels

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denial

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with severe illness - fail to understand severity

or parent fail to understand severity of child illness

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projection

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paranoid delusion with hallucinations - in adult

imaginary playmate - childhood

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dishonest people

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often suspect you of the same

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acting out

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drug use or sexual promiscuity

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man anxious about new job develops headache first day of work

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somatization

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undoing

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

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man son killed by drunk drive - attacks drunken street person

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displacement

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women sexually abused as child - two distinct personalities in adulthood

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dissociation

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physician who gets pancreatic cancer diagnosis obsesses over statistics

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intellectualization

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expression of no emotion when talking about dead family member

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isolation of affect

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being friendly toward someone you don’t like

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reaction formation

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

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sublimation

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