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Ego defenses
Psychiatry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Isolation of affect | Separation of feelings from ideas and events.(Describing murder in graphic detail with no emotional response) |
| Acting out | Unacceptable feelings and thoughts are expressed through actions.(Ex. Tantrums) |
| Dissociation | Temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress. Extreme- Multiple personality disorder. |
| Denial | Avoidance of awareness of some painful reality.(A common reaction in newly diagnosed with cancer) |
| Displacement | Process whereby avoided ideas and feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object(vs.projection) |
| Fixation | Partially remaining at a more childish level of development(vs.regression) |
| Identification | Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful.(Abused child identifies himself as an abuser). |
| Projection | An unacceptable internal impulse is attributed to an external source.(A man who wants another woman thinks his wife is cheating on him) |
| Rationalization | Proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame. (After getting fired, claiming that the job was not important anyway.) |
| Reaction Formation | Process whereby a warded-off idea or feeling is replaced by an (unconsciously derived) emphasis on its opposite.(A pt with libidinous thoughts enters a monastery) |
| Repression | Involuntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness. (Not remembering a conflictual or traumatic experience; pressing bad thoughts into the the unconscious) |
| Regression | Turning back the maturational clock and going back to earlier modes to deal with the world. (children under stress, bed wetting in a previously toilet-trained child when hospitalized) |
| Splitting | Belief that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity. Seen in borderline personality disorder. |
| Altruism | Guilty feelings alleviated by unsolicited generosity toward others. (Mafia Boss makes large donation to charity.) |
| Humor | Appreciating the amusing nature of an anxiety-provoking or adverse situation.(Nervous medical student jokes about the Boards) |
| Sublimation | Process whereby one replaces than unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to the wish but does not conflict with one's value system.(Teenager's aggression toward his father is redirected to perform well in sports.) |
| Suppression | Voluntary withholding an idea or feeling from concious awareness(vs.repression)(Choosing not to think about the USMLE until the week of the exam) |
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