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Defense Mechanisms
Mental Health
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 2 common features of defense mechanisms | They all (except suppression) operate on unconscious level. They deny, falsify, or distort reality to make it less threatening. |
| Difference between coping skills and defense mechanisms | Coping- decrease stress, decrease anxiety, conscious. Defense mech- subconscious. |
| Repression | Temporary or long term exclusion of unwanted experiences from conscious awareness. -Not remembered, pushed into conscious part of mind. |
| Denial | Escaping unpleasant realities by ignoring their existence. |
| Projection | Unconsciously rejecting emotionally unacceptable personal features & attributing them to other ppl, objects, or situations. -Frequently the element of blame. |
| Reaction Formation | AKA overcompensation. Acting the opposite of what you feel unconsciously. |
| 2 common features of defense mechanisms | They all (except suppression) operate on unconscious level. They deny, falsify, or distort reality to make it less threatening. |
| Rationalization | Most overused defense mech. Justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas, actions, or feelings by developing acceptable explanations that satisfy teller as well as the listener. |
| Identification | Modeling after someone. |
| Introjection | Form of identification. Taking on or absorbing the values of someone. |
| Difference between coping skills and defense mechanisms | Coping- decrease stress, decrease anxiety, conscious. Defense mech- subconscious. |
| Repression | Temporary or long term exclusion of unwanted experiences from conscious awareness. -Not remembered, pushed into conscious part of mind. |
| Denial | Escaping unpleasant realities by ignoring their existence. |
| Projection | Unconsciously rejecting emotionally unacceptable personal features & attributing them to other ppl, objects, or situations. -Frequently the element of blame. |
| Reaction Formation | AKA overcompensation. Acting the opposite of what you feel unconsciously. |
| Sublimation | Only defense mech. that is positive. Unconscious process of substituting constructive & socially acceptable activity for strong impulses that are not acceptable in original form. |
| Intellectualization | Using logic to avoid feelings. Focused of facts and data, not personal feelings. |
| Regression | Regressing back into former habits. |
| Suppression | Conscious denial of disturbing situation or feeling. |
| Woman whose husband died 3 years ago still keeps his clothes in the closet and talks about him in present tense: | Denial |
| Rationalization | Most overused defense mech. Justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas, actions, or feelings by developing acceptable explanations that satisfy teller as well as the listener. |
| Identification | Modeling after someone. |
| Introjection | Form of identification. Taking on or absorbing the values of someone. |
| Displacement | "Kicking the cat". Fueled by anxiety and stress. Transfer of emotions associated w/ a particular person, object, or situation onto another person, object, or situation that is nonthreatening. |
| Undoing | Makes up for an act or communication. |
| Sublimation | Only defense mech. that is positive. Unconscious process of substituting constructive & socially acceptable activity for strong impulses that are not acceptable in original form. |
| Intellectualization | Using logic to avoid feelings. Focused of facts and data, not personal feelings. |
| Compensation | Making up for a personal deficiency. |
| 4 y/o boy w/ new baby brother starts sucking his thumb again: | Regression |
| Suppression | Conscious denial of disturbing situation or feeling. |
| Young adult explains he had to drive home from a party after drinking alcohol because he had to feed his dog: | Rationalization |
| Woman whose husband died 3 years ago still keeps his clothes in the closet and talks about him in present tense: | Denial |
| 5 y/o girl dresses in mother's shoes and dress and meets her father at the door: | Identification |
| After his wife's death, husband has transient c/o chest pains and difficulty breathing | |
| Man who is unconsciously attracted to other women teases his wife about flirting: | Projection |
| Mother who has unconscious hostility toward her daughter is overprotective and hovers over her to protect her from harm, interfering w/ her normal G&D: | Reaction Formation |
| 4 y/o boy w/ new baby brother starts sucking his thumb again: | Regression |
| Young adult explains he had to drive home from a party after drinking alcohol because he had to feed his dog: | Rationalization |
| 5 y/o girl dresses in mother's shoes and dress and meets her father at the door: | Identification |
| After his wife's death, husband has transient c/o chest pains and difficulty breathing- the symptoms his wife had before she died: | Introjection |
| Child who is unable to acknowledge fear of his father becomes fearful of animals: | Displacement |
| After flirting w/ her male secretary, a woman brings her husband home tickets to a show: | Undoing |
| Woman who is angry w/ her boss writes a story about a heroic woman: | Sublimation |
| Nurse collecting grandmother's lab reports instead of staying w/ emotional family: | Intellectualization |
| Individual drinks alcohol when self-esteem is low to diffuse discomfort temporarily: | Compensation |
| Woman who feels lump in breast shortly before leaving for a 3-wk vacation puts the info in the back of her mind until after returning home: | Suppression |
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