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CSU Freud Defenses
CSU Freud Defense Mechanisms
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| Displacement | Taking out impulses on a less threatening target | Slamming a door instead of hitting as person or yelling at a child when angry with an adult |
| Intellectualization | Avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects | Focusing on the details of a funeral as opposed to the sadness and grief |
| Projection | Placing unacceptable impulses in yourself onto someone else | When losing an argument, a person feels stupid, and to cope with this, calls the other person "stupid." |
| Rationalization | Supplying a logical or rational reason as opposed to the real reason | Stating that you were fired because you didn't kiss up the the boss |
| Reaction formation | Taking the opposite belief because the true belief causes anxiety | A person who is angry with a colleague actually ends up being particularly courteous and friendly towards them |
| Regression | Returning to a previous stage of development | Sitting in a corner and crying after hearing bad news; throwing a temper tantrum when you don't get your way |
| Repression | Pulling painful thoughts or memories into the unconscious | Forgetting sexual abuse from your childhood due to the trauma and anxiety |
| Sublimation | Acting out unacceptable impulses in a socially acceptable way (a mature response) | Channeling your aggressive impulses toward a career as a boxer; lifting weights to release 'pent up' energy |
| Suppression | A conscious choice not dwell on painful for troubling thoughts | Making a point of not worrying about tomorrows test when playing reading your child a bedtime story |
| Somatization | The transformation of negative feelings towards others into pain or illness | Developing a stomach ache before work on the first day of a new job |
| Altruism | Constructive service to others that brings pleasure and personal satisfaction (a mature response) | |
| Hypochondriasis | An excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. | Due to anxietey about an impeneding divorce, an individual begins to fear he/she has cancer |
| Intellectualization | A form of isolation; concentrating on the intellectual components of a situation so as to distance oneself from the associated anxiety-provoking emotions; separation of emotion from ideas; | |
| Humor | Pointing out the funny or ironic aspects of a situation (not laughing AT others) (a mature response) | |
| Denial | Dealing with anxiety provoking information or situation by stating that it doesn't exist | insisting that your physician's diagnosis of cancer is incorrect and seeking a second opinion, then a third... |
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