Defense Mechanism Flashcards

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Repression

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Painful feelings are conscious initially and then forgotten, but may return occasionally. Ranges from momentary memory lapses to forgetting the details of a catastrophic event

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Denial

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Unpleasant relating is ignored and a realistic interpretation of potentially threatening events are replaced by benign inaccurate ones

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Suppression

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Unpleasant feelings are suppressed through a conscious effort ito ignore them. Feelings are deliberately ignored. Considered one of the more mature and healthy defense mechanism.

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Projection

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Undesirable feelings are attributed to another person

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Displacement

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Redirecting your negative emotions onto a less threatening stimulus

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Reaction Formation

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Behaving in a completely different way than one feels. Reduces anxiety by taking up the opposite feelings.

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Regression

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When confronted with stress, people revert back to patterns of behavior uses earlier in development / at a younger age

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Fixation

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With an oral fixation, when faced with stress, they bite nails, drink, smoke

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Identification

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Taking on the characteristics of someone else

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Rationalization

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An attempt to deny one’s true motive by using a reason that is more log ail or socially acceptable than one’s own reasons

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Isolation

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Compartmentalizing one’s experience so that an event becomes separated from the feelings that are associated with it, allowing it to be part of your conscious mind without the threat of painful feelings

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Sublimation

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Involves rechanneling the energy connected with an unacceptable impulse into one that is more socially acceptable

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Compensation

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Devoting unusual efforts to achievement in order to overcome feelings of inferiority

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