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Which ego defense: Believing that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity. Commonly seen in borderline personality disorder. Ex: A patient says that all the nurses are cold and insensitive but that the doctors are warm and friendly

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Splitting

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Which ego defense: Expressing unacceptable feeling and thoughts through actions. ex: Tantrums

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Acting out

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Which ego defense: Transferring avoided ideas and feelings to a neutral person or object (contrast to projection). Ex: Mother yells at her child because her husband yelled at her

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Displacement

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Which ego defense: Failing to meet the needs/expectations of others as an indirect show of opposition. Ex: Disgruntled employee is repeatedly late to work

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Passive aggressive

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Which ego defense: Separating feelings from ideas and events. Ex: Describing murder in graphic detail with no emotional response

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Isolation (of affect)

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Which ego defense: Replacing a warded-off idea or feeling by an (unconsciously derived) emphasis on its opposite (contrast to sublimation). Ex: A patient with Libidinous thoughts enters a monastery

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Reaction formation

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Which ego defense: Replacing an unacceptable with with a course of action that is similar to the wish but not conflict with one’s value system. Ex: Teenager’s aggression toward his father is redirected to perform well in sports

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Sublimation

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Which ego defense: Alleviating negative feelings via unsolicited generosity. Ex: Mafia boss makes large donation to charity

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Altruism

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What are the immature ego defenses?

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-Acting out
-Denial
-Displacement
-Dissociation
-Fixation
-Idealization
-Identification
-Intellectualization
-Isolation (of affect)
-Passive aggression
-Projection
-Rationalization
-Reaction formation
-Regression
-Repression
Splitting

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Which ego defense: Avoiding the awareness of some painful reality. Ex: A common reaction in newly diagnosed AIDS and cancer patients

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Denial

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Which ego defense: Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (though not necessarily admired. Ex: Abused child later becomes a child abuser

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Identification

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Which ego defense: INTENTIONALLY withholding an idea or feeling from conscious awareness; temporary. Ex: Choosing to not worry about the big game until it is time to play

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Suppression

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Which ego defense: Appreciating the amusing nature of an anxiety-provoking or adverse situation. Ex: Nervous medical student jokes about the boards

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Humor

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Which ego defense: Involuntarily turning back the maturational clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world (contrast to fixation). Ex: Seen in children uncer stress such as illness, punishment, or birth of a new sibling (eg. bedwetting in a previously toilet trained child when hospitalized)

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Regression

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Which ego defense: Proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame. Ex: After getting fired, claiming that the job was not important anyway

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Rationalization

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Which ego defense: Expressing extremely positive thoughts of self and others while ignoring negative thought. Ex: A patient boasts about his physician and his accomplishments while ignoring any flaws

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Idealization

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What are the Mature ego defenses?

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  • Sublimation
  • Altruism
  • Suppression
  • Humor
  • “Mature adults wear a SASH”
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Which ego defense: Temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress. Ex: extreme forms can result in dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder)

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Dissociation

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Which ego defense: INVOLUNTARILY withholding an idea or feeling from conscious awareness (vs suppression). Ex: a 20-year-old does not remember going to counseling during his parents’ divorce 10 years earlier

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Repression

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Which ego defense: Partially remaining at a more childish level of development (contrast to regression). Ex: Adults fixating on video games

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Fixation

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Which ego defense: using facts and logic to emotionally distance oneself from a stressful situation. Ex: in a therapy session, patient diagnosed with cancer focuses only on rates of survival

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Intellectualization

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Which ego defense: Attributing an unacceptable internal impulse to an external source (contrast to displacement). Ex: A man who wants to cheat on his wife accuses his wife of being unfaithful

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Projection

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