Ego Defenses--Immature Flashcards
Unacceptable feelings and thoughts are expressed thru actions (tantrums)?
Acting out
Temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress?
Dissociation–extreme forms can result in dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder)
Avoidance of awareness of some painful reality (common reaction in newly dx AIDS/cancer pt)?
Denial
Process whereby avoided ideas and feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object (mother yells at child, bc her husband yelled at her)?
Displacement (vs. projection)
Partially remaining at a more childish level of development (men fixating on sports games)?
Fixation
Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (tho not necessarily admired)?
Identification–abused child identifies himself/herself with an abuser
Separation of feelings from ideas and events (describing murder in graphic detail with no emotional response)?
Isolation (of affect)
An unacceptable internal impulse is attributed to an external source (a man who wants another woman thinks his wife is cheating on him)?
Projection (vs. displacement)
Proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame?
Rationalization–after getting fired, claiming that the job was not important anyway
Process whereby a warded-off idea/feeling is replaced by an (unconsciously derived) emphasis on its opposite?
Reaction formation (vs. sublimation)–a pt with libidinous thoughts enters a monastery
Turning back the maturational clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world?
Regression (vs. fixation)–bedwetting in a previously toilet-trained child when hospitalized
Involuntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness?
Repression (vs. suppression)–not remembering a conflictual or traumatic experience; pressing bad thoughts into the unconscious
Belief that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity (seen in boderline personality)?
Splitting–a pt says that all the nurses are cold and insensitive but that the doctors are warm and friendly