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Defense Mechanisms
VN 135 Defense Mechanisms
Question | Answer |
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ego | follows the reality principle. Controls individual's actions. Conforms to the demand of the outside world. Tries to balance ID and superego impulse. |
ID | repressed and unconscious. Pleasure principle. Pursues immediate gratification/desire. Reduces psychic tension. Instinctive impulses that of primitive needs such as hunger, air, move about and relieve body tension |
superego | conscience of morality. Concerned with social standards, ethics and conscience. Tends to be self critical. Will create anxiety to psychotic people. |
COMPENSATION | attempt to overcome feelings of inferiority or make up for deficiency |
CONVERSION | channeling of unbearable anxieties into body signs and symptoms |
DENIAL | refusal to acknowledge conflict and thus escapes reality of situation |
DISPLACEMENT | redirecting of energies to another person or object |
DISSOCIATION | separation of emotions from situation; isolation of painful anxieties |
FANTASY | distortion of unacceptable wishes, behaviors |
IDENTIFICATION | taking on of personal characteristics of admired person to conceal own feelings of inadequacy |
INTELLECTUALIZATION | focusing of attention on technical or logical aspects of threatening situation |
ISOLATION | separation of feelings from content to cope unemotionally with topics that would normally be overwhelming |
PROJECTION | putting of one's own unacceptable thoughts, wishes, emotions onto others |
RATIONALIZATION | use of "good" (but not real) reason to explain behavior to make unacceptable motivation more acceptable |
REACTION FORMATION | prevention of expression of threatening material by engaging in behaviors that are directly opposite to repressed material |
REGRESSION | coping with present conflict, stress by returning to earlier, more secure stage of life |
RESTITUTION | giving back to resolve guilt feelings |
SUBLIMATION | unconscious channeling of unacceptable behaviors into constructive, more socially approved areas |
SUBSTITUTION | disguising of motivations by replacing inappropriate behavior with one that is more acceptable |
SUPPRESSION | removal of conflict by removing anxiety from consciousness |
SYMBOLIZATION | use of an unrelated object to represent hidden idea |
UNDOING | inappropriate behavior that is followed by acts to take away or reverse action and decrease guilt and anxiety |
COMPENSATION IE. | a girl who thinks she cannot sing studies to become an expert pianist. |
CONVERSION IE. | a boy who injured an animal by kicking it develops a painful limp |
DENIAL IE. | a child covered with chocolate refuses to admit eating candy. |
DISPLACEMENT IE. | a husband shouts at his wife, the wife then berates her child, who then scolds the dog. |
DISSOCIATION IE. | a soldier casually describes the battle in which he lost his legs. |
FANTASY IE. | a teenager doing poorly in school daydreams about owning a private jet airplane. |
IDENTIFICATION IE. | teenage adolescents dress and behave like the members of a popular singing group. |
INTELLECTUALIZATION IE. | a wife describes the details of nurses' unsuccessful attempts to prevent the death of her husband. |
ISOLATION IE. | a soldier humorously describes how he was seriously wounded in combat. |
PROJECTION IE. | a woman is afraid to leave her house because she knows people will ridicule her. |
RATIONALIZATION IE. | a student justifies failing an examination by saying that there was too much material to cover. |
REACTION FORMATION IE. | a young man with homosexual feelings, which he finds to be threatening, engages in excessive heterosexual activities. |
REGRESSION IE. | a 4-year-old boy whose parents are going through a divorce starts to suck his thumb and wet his pants. |
RESTITUTION IE. | a man argues with his wife and then buys her roses. |
SUBLIMATION IE. | a hostile young man who enjoys fighting becomes a football player. |
SUBSTITUTION IE. | a man who is attracted to pornography campaigns to ban adult bookstores in his community. |
SUPPRESSION IE. | a woman with a family history of breast cancer "forgets" her appointment for a mammogram. |
SYMBOLIZATION IE. | a girl who feels insignificant draws a picture of her family in which she is the smallest character. |
UNDOING IE. | a man physically abuses his wife and then cleans her wounds and nurses her back to health. |