Psychiatry Flashcards
(171 cards)
Transference
Patient projects feelings about formative or other important persons onto physician
Countertransference
Doctor projects feelings about formative or other important persons onto patient
Acting out
Immature
Subconsciously coping with stressor or emotional conflict using actions rather than reflections or feelings
Denial
Immature
Avoiding the awareness of some painful reality
Displacement
Immature
Redirection of emotions or impulses to a neutral person or object
Dissociation
Immature
Temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress. Patient has incomplete or no memory of traumatic event.
Fixation
Partially remaining at a more childish level of development
Idealization
Expressing extremely positive thoughts of self and others while ignoring negative thoughts
Identification
Largely unconscious assumption of the characteristics, qualities or traits of another person or group
Intellectualization
Using facts and logic to emotionally distance oneself from a stressful situation
Isolation of affect
Separating feelings from ideas and events
Passive aggressive
Demonstrating hostile feelings in a nonconfrontational manners; indirect opposition
Projection
Attributing an unacceptable internal impulse to an external source
Rationalization
Asserting plausible explanations for events that actually occurred for other reasons, avoid self blame
Reaction Formation
replacing a warded off idea or feeling with an emphasis on its opposite
Regression
involuntarily turning back the maturational clock to behaviors previously demonstrated under stress
Repression
Involuntarily withholding an idea or feeling from conscious awareness
Splitting
Believing that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity. Borderline Personality Disorder
Sublimation
Replacing an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to the wish but socially acceptable
Mature
Altruism
Alleviating negative feelings via unsolicited generosity, which provides gratification
Suppression
Intentionally withholding an idea or feeling from conscious awareness temporarily
Humor
Lightheartedly expressing uncomfortable feelings to shift the internal focus away from distress
Infant deprivation effects
failure to thrive
poor language/socialization
lack of basic trust
Reactive attachment disorder
Disinhibited social engagement (attached to strangers)
Deprivation for >6 months –> irreversible changes
Child Physical Abuse
Fracture, bruises, burns
Different stages of healing
Caregivers may delay seeking medical attention