Defensive Mechanism

Question 1

Displacement

Answer 1

Shift negative feeling from one target to another

Question 2

Intellectualization

Answer 2

Avoiding unacceptable emotions by thinking or talking them rather than experiencing them directly.

(Lying to yourself, denying your feelings)
No affects in words

Question 3

Introjection

Answer 3

Taking characteristics of another person in order to avoid direct conflict.

(Assimilation of idea/ schema (thought process)

Their perception of me is put in to me.
(You: you suck! Me: yeah.. I suck..)

Question 4

Isolation of affect

Answer 4

Attempt to control by emotionally, stepping back.

• step back
• take a breath
• process

Tim

Question 5

Projection

Answer 5

Attributing unacceptable thoughts & feelings to others.

• transfers of emotions to another.
• putting my thoughts to other person. (Convincing I’m right)
  Fighting back.

Opposite to interjection.

Question 6

Rationalization

Answer 6

Using convincing reasons to justify idea, feelings, or actions to onset to avoid recognizing true underline motives.

• making excuses to make bad things ok.
  (My wife beats me, but she is having hard time at work and she is releasing her stress at me)
• logic your way out
• there is other meaning underneath of it.

Question 7

Reaction formation

Answer 7

Replacing unwanted unconscious impulse with opposite in conscious behavior.

( a 16 years old has great hatred of gay man. He secretly has a desire to be gay.)

Question 8

Repression

Answer 8

Keeping unwanted thoughts and feelings entirely out of awareness.
(they are not expressed in any way)

• try to forget bad memories
• buried your unwanted thoughts.
• rejected by person who you liked.

Question 9

Regression

Answer 9

Go back to behavior from earlier stage of development to resolve anxiety.

(Me acting like a baby)
(A young man throws temper tantrum as a means of releasing his anger)

Question 10

Somatization

Answer 10

Converting intolerable impulses into somatic symptoms.

Showing physical evidence that you are lying when you are lying

Question 11

Sublimation

Answer 11

Converting an impulse from a socially unacceptable aim to a socially acceptable one.

(Using negative for good)
If you are argumentative, you should become a lawyer.

Question 12

Undoing

Answer 12

Nullifying an undesired impulse with an act of reparation.

(A man who feels guilty about having lustful thoughts about a co-worker tries to make amend to his wife by purchasing a special gift for her.

Question 13

Denial

Answer 13

Your reality is not real

Negating important aspect of life