defense mechanisms Flashcards
(8 cards)
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Reaction formation
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switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites.
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Regression
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retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
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Projection
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disguising one’s own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
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Rationalization
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offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one’s actions
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Displacement
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shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person.
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Sublimation
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is the transferring of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motives.
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Denial
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refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities.
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Repression
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banishes anxiety-arousing wishes and feelings from consciousness.
