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Defense Mech
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mature | Altruism, Humor, Sublimation, Suppression |
| Neurotic | ( seen in OCD or under stress) Controlling, displacement, Intellectualization, isolation of affect, rationalization, reaction formation, repression |
| Immature | Acting out, Denial, Regression, Projection |
| Other Defense Mech | Splitting, Undoing(dream of setting house on fire...wake up check the alarms regularly) |
| Which defense mech is NOTa true defense mech | Thought suppression bc it is Conscious vs true defense mech=unconscius |
| Unacceptable feelings and thoughts are expressed through actions | acting out |
| temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress | dissociation |
| avoidance of awareness of some painful reality | denial |
| process whereby avoided ideas and feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object | displacement |
| partially remaining at a more childish level of development | fixation |
| modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (though not necessarily admired) | identification |
| separation of feelings from ideas and events(Talk abt husbands death w/ no emotion) | isolation of affect |
| an unacceptable internal impulse is attributed to an external source(Husband cheats...so he thinks his wife cheats) | projection |
| proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, likely to avoid blame | rationalization |
| process whereby a warded-off idea or feeling is replaced by an (unconsciously derived) emphasis on its opposite | reaction formation |
| going back to earlier modes of dealing w/ the world (decreasing in maturity) | regression |
| doctor who is dying from cancer explains his disease in detail to a 12 year-old | Intellectualization |
| Ashley hitting me and calling me bad names | RXN formation |
| involuntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness | repression |
| people are either all good or all bad at defferent times due to intolerance of ambiguity | splitting |
| guilty feelings alleviated by unsolicited generosity toward others | altruism |
| appreciating the amusing nature of an anxiety-provoking or adverse situation | humor |
| process whereby one replaces an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar bu does not conflict w/ one's value system -dickhead in highschool becomes a cop or prison guard | sublimation |
| voluntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness | suppression |
Section 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| splitting is common w/ which personality disorder? | borderline personality disorder |
| A patient says that all the nurses are cold, but all the doctors are friendly. | splitting |
| The difference b/w repression and suppression is what? | repression is NOT VOLUNTARY; suppression is VOLUNTARY |
| The difference b/w fixation and regression is what? | Fixation - partially REMAIN childish; Regression - mature and then REGRESS |
| Which is the mature defense mechanism? 1) rationalization 2) regression 3) displacement 4) suppression 5) identification 6) repression 7) splitting | suppression = mature |
| Which is the less primitive defense mechanism? 1) dissociation 2) sublimation 3) splitting 4) repression 5) reaction formation 6) projection 7) isolation of affect 8) fixation | sublimation = mature |
| A pt uses an immature defense mech. Which is it? 1) altruism 2) repression 3) suppression 4) humor 5) sublimation | repression = immature defense mechanism |
| Displacement is different from projection how> | displacement = transfer feeling to neutral object; projection = internal impulse attributed to external source |
| Free association | Say whatever comes to mind |
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