Defense Mechanisms Flashcards
Repression
Painful feelings are conscious initially and then forgotten, but return occasionally. Repression can range from momentary memory lapses to forgetting the details
Denial
Unpleasant reality is ignored, and a realistic interpretation of potential threatening events are replaced by benign but inaccurate ones
Suppression
Unpleasant feelings are suppressed through a concours effort to ignore them. Suppression differs from repression and denial in undesirable feelings are available but deliberately ignored
Projection
In projection, the undesirable feelings are attributed to another person or persons
Displacement
Object displacement, anger or another emotion is initially felt towards a person against whom it is unsafe to express it (in children, for example, toward a parent)
Reaction formation
Involves behavior that is diametrically opposed (completely different) to the impulses or feelings
Regression
When confronted by stressful events, people sometimes abandon coping strategies and revert to patterns behavior used earlier I’m development
Fixation
When your stress increases so do bad habits. Biting nails, over drinking and smoking in stressful situations
Identification
Taking on the characteristics of someone else
Rationalization
Is an attempt to deny one’s true motives by using a reason why that is more logical or socially acceptable than one’s own reasons
Isolation
It involves compartmentalizing one’s experience so that an event becomes separated from the feelings that associated with it, allowing it to be part of your conscious mind without the
Sublimation
Involves rechanneling the energy connected of an unacceptable impulse on to one that’s it more socially acceptable
Compensation
Devoting unusual efforts to achievement in order to overcome feelings of inferiority
