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Def mechz Psych
defense mechanisms
Question | Answer |
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Nomadism | inability to commit, can't stay in one job, one house, one relationship |
Negativism | disliking everything mentioned, excessive use of sarcasm, being highly defensive, consistent complaining- "victim" |
Avoidance | avoiding the problem, not facing reality |
Withdrawl | emotionally withdrawing yourself from a situation |
Apathy | acting unemotional |
Procrastination | putting things off |
Substitution | finding unacceptable or illegal outlets for id energy, alcohol, substance abuse |
Sublimation | POSITIVE MECHANISM- finding acceptable outlets for id energy, signing up for boxing to control anger |
overcompensation | putting others down, ridiculing people, acting superior to hide your feelings of inferiority |
compensation | making up for personal lack or handicap by doing something else well; highlighting your assets- denying personal lack |
Fantasy | creating a make believe world |
Identification | copying behavior, beliefs, lifestyle and other characteristics of someone else- hero worship |
Displacement | taking out your emotions on substitute people or objects |
Projection | the unconscious attribution of negative feelings onto another person or group |
Rationalization | an attempt to substitute "good" reasons for real reasons, make the bad things good- kind of denial |
Suppression | intentionally/consciously trying to forget an unpleasant experience from memory |
Repression | unconsciously pushing unpleasant memory into unconscious mind |
compartmentalization | dividing your life into separate air-tight compartments to avoid inconsistencies |
intellectualization | dismissing anxiety by analyzing emotional issues intellectually and converting them into theory rather than action |
emotional insulation | not showing feelings, shutting down "leave me alone" |
reaction-formula | behaving the opposite of how you really feel over a period of many years " living a lie" |
undoing | trying to atone for bad behavior by pretending it never happened |
Denial | refusal to accept the painful truth |