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defense mechanisms
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strategies the ego uses to defend itself against the anxiety provoked by conflicts of everyday life. They involve denials or distortions of reality
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repression
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defense mechanism that involves unconscious denial of the existence of something that causes anxiety
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denial
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defense mechanism that involves denying the existence of an external threat or traumatic event
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reaction formation
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defense mechanism that involves expressing an id impulse that is the opposite of the one truly driving the person
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projection
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defense mechanism that involves attributing a disturbing impulse to someone else
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regression
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defense mechanism that involves retreating to an earlier, less frustrating period of life and displaying the childish and dependent behaviors characteristic of that more secure time
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rationalization
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defense mechanism that involves reinterpreting behavior to make it more acceptable and less threatening
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displacement
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defense mechanism that involves shifting id impulses from a threatening or unavailable object to a substitute object that is available
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sublimation
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defense mechanism that involves altering or displacing id impulses by diverting instinctual energy into socially acceptable behaviors
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intellectualization
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defense mechanism that involves saying something with intelligence rather than with emotions
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undoing
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defense mechanism that involves trying to reverse your feeling by doing something that indicates the opposite feeling
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isolation of affect
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defense mechanism that involves thinking the feeling without actually feeling it
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suppression
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defense mechanism that involves being vaguely aware of the thought or feeling, but try to hide it by pushing material into preconscious
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psychosexual stages of development
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to Freud, the oral, anal, phallic, and genital stages through which all children pass. In these stages, gratification of the id instincts depends on the stimulation of corresponding areas of the body
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fixation
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a condition in which a portion of libido remains invested in one of the psychosexual stages because of excessive frustration or gratification
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oral stage
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the mouth is the primary erogenous zone; pleasure derived from sucking, id is dominant. birth to 18 months
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anal stage
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toilet training, external reality, interferes with gratification received from defecating. 18 months to 3 years
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phallic stage
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incestuous fantasies; Oedipus complex, anxiety; superego dominant. 3 to 5 years
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latency stage
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period of sublimation of sexual instinct. 5 to puberty
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genital stage
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development of sex-role identity and adult social relationships. adolescence to adulthood
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oral passive personality
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overindulged at oral stage, continue to depend on others to gratify needs, gullible, swallow anything, trusting
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oral sadistic personality
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prone to pessimism, hostility, cruelty, sarcastic, argumentative, biting remarks, envious
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anal aggressive personality
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defecate when and where the parents disapprove
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anal retentive personality
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hoarding, rigid, compulsively neat, obstinate, and overly conscientious
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Oedipus complex
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the unconscious desire of a boy for his mother accompanied by a desire to replace or destroy his father
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castration anxiety
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a boy's fear during the Oedipal period that his penis will be cut off
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Electra complex
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a girl's unconscious desire for her father, accompanied by a desire to replace or destroy her mother
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penis envy
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the envy the female feels toward the male because the male possesses a penis; this is accompanied by a sense of loss
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phallic personality
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strong narcissism, need for continual appreciation
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genital personality
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finds satisfaction in love and work
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