Psych Disorders Flashcards

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Acting Out

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Avoiding Unacceptable Feelings by behaving badly

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Denial

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Behaving as if an aspect of realtity does not exist

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Displacement

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Transferring feelings to a more acceptable object

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Dissocitation

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Disrupting memory, identity and consciouness to cope with an event

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Distortion

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Altering perception of upsetting reality to be more acceptbale

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Fantasy

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Substituting imaginary scernarios

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Intellecualization

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Using intellect to avoid uncomfortable feelings

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Isolation of affect

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Separating a thought form its emotional component

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Projection

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Attributing one’s own feelings to others

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Rationalization

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Justifying behavior to avoid difficult truths

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Reaction formation

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Responding in a manner opposite to one’s acual feelings

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Regression

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Reverting to an earlier developmental stage

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Repression

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Blocking upsetting feeling sfrom entering consciouness

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Somatization

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Transorming emotional conflicts into phsycial symptoms

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Splitting

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Seeing others as all bad or good

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16
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Altruism

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Mature: Avoiding negative feeling by helping others

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Humor

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Mature: using humor to avoid uncomfortable feelings

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Sublimation

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Mature: Channeling impulses into soccialy accetable behaviors (mature version of displacement)

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Suppression

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Putting unwanted feelings aside to cope with reality