Ego Defenses--Immature Flashcards

1
Q

Unacceptable feelings and thoughts are expressed thru actions (tantrums)?

A

Acting out

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Temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress?

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Dissociation–extreme forms can result in dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder)

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3
Q

Avoidance of awareness of some painful reality (common reaction in newly dx AIDS/cancer pt)?

A

Denial

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4
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Process whereby avoided ideas and feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object (mother yells at child, bc her husband yelled at her)?

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Displacement (vs. projection)

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5
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Partially remaining at a more childish level of development (men fixating on sports games)?

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Fixation

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6
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Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (tho not necessarily admired)?

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Identification–abused child identifies himself/herself with an abuser

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7
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Separation of feelings from ideas and events (describing murder in graphic detail with no emotional response)?

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Isolation (of affect)

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8
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An unacceptable internal impulse is attributed to an external source (a man who wants another woman thinks his wife is cheating on him)?

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Projection (vs. displacement)

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9
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Proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame?

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Rationalization–after getting fired, claiming that the job was not important anyway

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10
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Process whereby a warded-off idea/feeling is replaced by an (unconsciously derived) emphasis on its opposite?

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Reaction formation (vs. sublimation)–a pt with libidinous thoughts enters a monastery

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Turning back the maturational clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world?

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Regression (vs. fixation)–bedwetting in a previously toilet-trained child when hospitalized

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Involuntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness?

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Repression (vs. suppression)–not remembering a conflictual or traumatic experience; pressing bad thoughts into the unconscious

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13
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Belief that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity (seen in boderline personality)?

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Splitting–a pt says that all the nurses are cold and insensitive but that the doctors are warm and friendly

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