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Repression |
Key mechanism
Expressed by amnesia or forgetting serving to rid unacceptable fantasies, affects or impulses from consciousness |
Amnesia
Forgetting |
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Compensation
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Enables one to make up for real or imagined deficits.
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Napolean complex, person who stutters becomes expressive writer
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Conversion
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repressed urge is expressed as a disturbance of body fxn (usually sensory, voluntary nervous system).
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pain, deaf, blind, paralysis, convulsions, tics
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Denial
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Primitive Defense.
Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable. |
Adult survivors of abuse deny it happened
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Displacement
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Directing an impulse, wish or feeling toward a person/situation that is not its real object b/c it's safer.
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you are mad at your boss, but kick your dog
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Dissociation
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When a person splits mental fxns in a manner that allows expression of forbidden/unconsious impulses w/o taking responsibility for the axn. He doesn't remember or it is not seen as their own experience.
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fugue states, amnesia, dissociative neurosis, or normally expressed as daydreams.
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Idealization
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overestimation of an admired aspect of attribute of another. Conscious or unconscious
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A child thinking parents are flawless
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Identification |
Universal mechanism where a person patterns himself after a significant other. Plays major role in personality development, esp super ego
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Feel you are like your idealized parent
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Identification w/ the Aggressor
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Mastering anxiety by identifying w/ a powerful aggressor (i.e. abusive parent) to counteract feelings of helplessness and to feel powerful oneself.
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Abused person abusing someone else.
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Incorporation |
Primitive mechanism
Psychic representation of a person is figuratively ingested. |
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Inhibition
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loss of motivation to engage in activity avoided b/c it might stir up conflict over forbidden impulses
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ex. writing, learning, work blocks, social shyness
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Introjection
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loved or hated external objects are symbolically absorbed within self (opposite of projection)
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ex. in severe depression, unconscious unacceptable hatred is turned towards self.
ex. picking up traits from others, copying them |
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Isolation of Affect
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unacceptable impulse, idea, act is separated from its original memory source, thus removing emotion associated with it
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Projection
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primitive defense
attributiing one's one disowned attitudes, wishes, feelings, urges to some external object |
thinking your spouse is angry at the kids when you really are
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Rationalization |
third line of defense
not unconscious giving believable explanation for irriational behaviors |
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Rxn formation
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person acts opposite of what they really think/feel
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excessive moral zeal masks asocial impulses.
excessively nice to mask anger |
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Regression
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partial or symbolic return to more infantile patterns
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Sublimation
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potentially maladaptive feelings or behaviors are diverted into socially acceptable, adaptive channels
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using sports to channel anger
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Substitution
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unattainable/unacceptable goal, emotion or object is replaced by one acceptable/attainable
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Symbolization
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mental representation stands for something else. basis for dream formation, conversion rxns, obsessions, compulsions.
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Undoing
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person uses words or axns to symbolically reverse or negate unacceptable thoughts, feelings or axns
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compulsive handwashing to deal w/ obsessive thoughts
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Turning Against Self
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defense to deflect hostile aggression or other unacceptable impulses from another to self
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Splitting
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Associated with borderline PD.
All "good" or all "bad." leads to selective lack of impulse control. |
person cannot integrate good and bad in people.
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Projective Identification
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form of projection in borderline PD.
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Unconsciously perceiving other's behaviors as a reflection of one's own identity.
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Devaluation
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seen in borderline PD
Person attributes exaggerated (-) qualities to self or anther |
split of idealization
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Acting Out
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emotional conflict is dealt w/ through axns rather than feelings
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ex. instead of talking about feeling neglected, a person will get into trouble to get attention
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Decompensation
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Deterioration of existing defenses.
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Suppression
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conscious way of repressing. a psuedo defense mech.
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Intellectualization
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helps reduce anxiety by focusing on unwanted events or feelings in a cold, clinical and emotionless way.
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