Table 42-3 Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

Denial

Answer 1

Blocking out painful or anxiety-inducing events or feelings

Question 2

Displacement

Answer 2

Discharging pent-up feelings on people less dangerous than those who initially aroused the emotion.

Question 3

Dissociation

Answer 3

Handling emotional conflicts, or internal or external stressors, by a temporary alteration of consciousness or identity.

Question 4

Fantasy

Answer 4

Symbolic satisfaction of wishes through non rational thought.

Question 5

Identification

Answer 5

Unconscious assumption of similarity between oneself and another.

Question 6

Intellectualization

Answer 6

Separating an emotion from an idea or thought because the emotional reactions is too painful to be acknowledged.

Question 7

Introjection

Answer 7

Acceptance of another’s values and opinions as one’s own.

Question 8

Projection

Answer 8

Attributing one’s own unacceptable feelings and thoughts to others.

Question 9

Rationalization

Answer 9

Falsification of experience through the construction of logical or socially approved explanations of behavior.

Question 10

Reaction Formation

Answer 10

Unacceptable feelings disguised by repression of the real feeling and by reinforcement of the opposite feeling.

Question 11

Regression

Answer 11

Reverting to an earlier stage of development.

Question 12

Repression

Answer 12

Unconsciously keeping unacceptable feelings and thoughts out of awareness.

Question 13

Suppression

Answer 13

Consciously keeping unacceptable feelings and thoughts out of awareness.

Question 14

Undoing

Answer 14

Attempting to take back an unconscious thought or behavior that is unacceptable or hurtful.