Session 2 cont'd Flashcards
What is a defense mechanism?
A mental operation, usually unconscious, directed against the expression of drives and impulses
What is the function of DMs?
Protect the self from anxiety, conflict, shame, loss of self-esteem or other unacceptable feelings and negative thoughts.
Difference between mature and immature DMs
Mature: greater ability to adapt to reality; can distance threatening feelings without distorting reality
Immature: severe alteration of painful content and/or radical distortions of external reality
Mature and neurotic DMs
Mature: Anticipation, Humor, Sublimation, Suppression
Neurotic: Idealization, Intellectualization, Pseudo-altruism, Reaction formation, Repression, Undoing
What is sublimation (DMs)?
Expression socially unacceptable feeling in an acceptable manner (through arts, sports, etc.)
What is pseudo-altruism (DMs)?
Helping others to feel better about oneself, thereby avoiding negative feelings
What is reaction formation (DMs)?
Behaving in a way that is diametrically opposite to what we’re feeling (being super nice to a person we hate)
What is undoing (DMs)?
Behaving in a way so as to reverse unacceptable behavior; ‘correcting’ a past mistake
Immature DMs (13)
Autistic fantasy, acting out, denial, devaluation, displacement, dissociation, isolation, passive aggression, projection, rationalization, regression, somatization, splitting
What is autistic fantasy (DMs)?
autistic retreat into an imaginary life to avoid unacceptable feelings
What is devaluation (DMs)?
Reduction or underestimation of the worth or importance of sth
What is isolation (DMs)?
Separate ideas or feelings from the rest of your thoughts
What is splitting (DMs)?
Understanding the world in black and white terms (key to BPD)
What are the personality trait domains of the PID-5-BF?
Negative affectivity, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition, and psychoticism
What PDs is negative affectivity associated with?
Avoidant, schizotypal, borderline and obsessive-compulsive PD
