00 - Fas1 - Psychiatry : Ego Defenses

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List the Mature Ego Defenses

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Suppression
Altruism
Sublimation
Humor

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Unacceptable feelings and thought are expressed through actions

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Acting Out

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Tantrums

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Acting Out

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior ....... to avoid emotional stress.

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Dissociation

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Involuntary Avoidance of awareness of some painful REALITY

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Denial

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Process whereby avoided ideas and feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object.

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Displacement

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Mom places blame on child because she is really angry at her husband.

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Displacement

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EGO DEFENSE?

- An UNACCEPTABLE & INTERNAL impulse is attributed to an external source.

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Projection

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Man who wants another women, thinks his wife is cheating on him.

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Projection

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Partially remaining at a more childish level of development

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Fixation

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Males still stuck on obsessing about sports games.

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Fixation

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EGO DEFENSE?

- TURNING BACK the maturity clock & going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world.

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Regression

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Older children under stress, such as with bedwetting

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Regression

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Dialysis patients, such as crying

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Regression

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Modeling behavior after another person who is More Powerful
(but not necessarily admired)

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Identification

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Abused child portrays himself as the abuser

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Identification

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Separation of Feelings from Ideas & Events

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Isolation (of Affect)

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Describing a murder in great graphic detail, but without emotional response

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Isolation (of Affect)

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons.
(usually to avoid self-blame)

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Rationalization

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EGO DEFENSE?

- After getting fired, a man claims that the job wasn't important anyway.

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Rationalization

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Process whereby a warded-off idea or feeling is replaced by an (UNCONSCIOUSLY Derived) emphasis on the opposite.

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Reaction Formation

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Patient with libidinous thoughts enter a monastery.

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Reaction Formation

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EGO DEFENSE?

- INVOLUNTARY Withholding of IDEAS or FEELINGS from conscious awareness

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Repression

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Not remembering a conflictual or traumatic experience

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Repression

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Involuntarily pressing bad thoughts into the unconscious

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Repression

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Belief that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to Intolerance of Ambiguity.

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Splitting

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Patient says that all nurses are cold and insensitive, but that the doctors are warm and friendly

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Splitting

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Splitting is seen in what psych disorder?

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- Borderline Personality Disorder

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Extreme forms can lead to a personality with multiple personalities.

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- Dissociation

(in extreme forms can lead to Dissociative Identity Disorder)

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Common reaction in newly diagnosed AIDS and CA patients.

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Denial

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EGO DEFENSE?

- GUILTY feelings alleviated by unsolicited generosity towards others.

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Altruism

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Mafia boss makes large donation to charity

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Altruism

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Appreciating the amusing nature of an Anxiety-Provoking or Adverse Situation.

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Humor

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Nervous medical student jokes about the boards

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Humor

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Process whereby one replaces an UNACCEPTABLE Wish with a course of action that is similar to the Wish, but does NOT conflict with one's value system

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Sublimation

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Actress uses experience of abuse to enhance her acting

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Sublimation

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Voluntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness

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Suppression

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EGO DEFENSE?

- Choosing not to think about the USMLE until the week of exam

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Suppression

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Immature Ego defenses have what 2 characters?

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Automatic

Unconscious