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Defense Mechs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Defense Mech | organism protects itself against impulses & effects |
| Mature Defenses | The conscious/ semiconscious decision to postpone attention to a conscious impulse or conflict; suppress for now in order to stay focused at work/ school |
| Mature Defenses | Something I want to achieve but not making a - defense; not of discomfort to others; goal is retained; constructive/ gratifying to others; realistic; logical/ grounded mentally/ deals w/ stressful situations |
| Mature Defenses | realistic anticipation of or planning for future inner discomfort |
| Mature Defenses | positive defense; overt expression of feelings w/o personal discomfort or immobilization and w/o unpleasant effect on others |
| Mature Defenses | The gratification of an impulse whose goal is retained but whose aim or object is changed from a socially objectionable one to a valued one; used in another way to be socially accepted |
| Mature Defenses | vicarious but constructive & gratifying svc to others; selfless regard for the well being of others |
| Mature Defenses | Humor Altrusim Sublimation Suppression Anticipation |
| Immature Defenses | Transformation of reproach toward others arising from bereavement, loneliness, or unacceptable aggressive impulses into self-repraoch and complaints of pain, and somatic illness |
| Immature Defenses | management of unacceptable impulses by permitting expression of the impulse in an antithetical form (exp)homophobic but actually has homosexual tendencies |
| Immature Defenses | loved or hated external objects are symbolically absorbed within oneself |
| Immature Defenses | attributing ones own unacknowledged feelings to others; project out |
| Immature Defenses | consists of the expelling & withholding from conscious awareness of an idea or feeling; unconsciously doing it; dont realize your feelings |
| Immature Defenses | justification of attitudes, beliefs, or behavior that might otherwise be unacceptable by an incorrect application of justifying reasons or the intervention of a convincing fallacy; cutters, drug users, alcoholics |
| Immature Defenses | defensive conversion of psychic derivatives into bodily symptoms; tendency to react with somatic rather than psychic symptoms; taking emotional & making it physical |
| Immature Defenses | child; give self illnesses/ pain; draw attn to self; create a path to get desired outcome; taking emotional pains & making them physical pains; keywords: external/ others |
| Immature Defenses | projection blocking introjection hypochondriasis acting out somatization |
| Neurotic Defenses | excessive attempt to manage or regulate events in the environment in the interest of minimizing anxiety & solving internal conflicts |
| Neurotic Defenses | A temp but drastic modification of character or sense of personal identity to avoid emotional distress; includes fugue states & hysterical conversion reactions |
| Neurotic Defenses | The intropsychic splitting of affect (emotion) from content resulting in repression of either ideas or affect; separate self from emotion |
| Neurotic Defenses | An inhibition (mental restriction) usually temp in nature, of effects especially, but possibly also thinking and impulses; close to repression |
| Neurotic Defenses | excessive need to control because of internal conflict; shifting/ taking out on another subject; unconscious but purposeful (pattern); drastic modification of reality & no longer self; disconnect from reality/ splitting control |
| Neurotic Defenses | involves a purposeful, unconscious shifting from one subject to another in the interest of solving a conflict |
| Neurotic Defenses | grossly reshaping external reality to suit inner needs |
| Neurotic Defenses | control of effects & impulses by way of thinking about them instead of experiencing them; control outcome; impulse b/c think instead of experience; choose not to experience/ not wanting to take a chance |
| Neurotic Defenses | perceiving & reacting to unacceptable inner pulses & their derivatives as if they were outside the self |
| Neurotic Defenses | repression controlling rationalization reaction formation isolation disassociation displacement |
| Narcissistic Defenses | Diva; full of self; avaoiding reality to not become aware; reshape external needs to suit inner; perception altered so reality (truth) is different; negative def mech; client doesnt recognize the concern so worker can't be the change agent to help |
| Narcissistic Defenses | The direct expression of an unconscious wish or impulse in action to avoid being conscious of the accompanying effect (draw attn to self) |
| Narcissistic Defenses | Avoidance of becoming aware of some painful aspect of reality |
| Narcissistic Defenses | distortion denial unconscious projection |
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