Pyschia Terms Flashcards
Projection
Blaming to others
Displacement
Emotion shifted to others
Ex. Kick the cat
Somatization
Psych problem to physical problem (GIT)
Conversion
Psych problem to physical problem (Nervous System)
Repression
Involuntary to forget
Suppression
Voluntary to forget
Introjection
Taking values and beliefs
Blaming self
Identification
Taking characteristics and trait
Regression
Return to an earlier stage of development (balik pagkabata)
Splitting
All good and all bad
Acting out
Emotional outburst (tantrums)
Isolation of affect
Reality accepted without emotional response
Ex. namatayan pero no reaction
Intellectualization
Use of intellectual process, theories to avoid expression affect
Rationalization
Alibi, excuses
Reaction formation
Opposite of what you feel
Ex. Plastic
Undoing
Acting out reverse of the unacceptable
Doing something to relieve guilt
Passive - Aggressive
Hostility, complaining
Dissociation
Detaching from one consciousness
Disconnection of feelings from traumatic event
Sublimation
Unacceptable impulse to acceptable channel
Bad to good
Cachexia
Severe muscle wasting
Transference
Patient to health care workers
Countertransference
Health care workers to patient (sympathy)
Agoraphobia
Fear in the open space
Claustrophobia
Fear in closed space
Xenophobia
Fear in stranger