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NUR271 GWCC
Defense Mechanisms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Compensation | Make up for perceived deficiencies and cover up shortcomings related to these deficiencies to protect the conscious mind from recognizing them. |
| Conversion | Unconscious transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom with no orgnaic cause. Often the symptom functions to gain attention or as an excuse. |
| Denial | Escaping unpleasant, anxiety-causing thoughts, feelings, wishes or needs by ignoring their existence. |
| Displacement | Transference of emotions associated with a particular person, object, or situation to another nonthreatening person, object, or situation |
| Dissociation | Disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment. |
| Identification | Attributing to onseslef the characteristics of another person or group |
| Intellectualization | Process where events are analyzed based on remote, cold facts and without passion, rather than incorporating feeling and emotion |
| Introjection | Process by which the outside world is incorporated or absorbed into a person's view of self. |
| Projection | Unconscious rejection of emotionally unacceptable features and attributes them to other people, objects, or situations |
| Rationalization | Justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas, actions, or feelings by developing acceptable explanations |
| Reaction Formation | Unacceptable feelings or behaviors are controlled and kept out of awareness by developing the opposite behavior to them. |
| Regression | Reverting to an earlier time, more primitive and childlike pattern |
| Repression | First-line psychological defense against anxiety. Temporary or long-term exclusion of unwanted emotions/memories |
| Splitting | Inability to integrate the positive and negative qualities of oneself or others into a cohesive image. All bad or All good. |
| Sublimation | Unconscious process or substituting mature, constructive, and socially acceptable active for immature/destructive thoughts/impulses. ALWAYS a good "adaptive" use. |
| Suppression | Conscious denial of a disturbing situation or feeling. i.e. "I will worry about paying rent after my final exam" |
| Undoing | Most commonly seen in children. It is when a person makes up for an act or communication. i.e. after flirting with her male secretary, a woman brings husband tickets to concert. |
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