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15 Cards in this Set
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Why are defense mechanisms used?
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Used to control anxiety. Can influence an individual's reaction to emotional conflicts as well as responses displayed toward internal and external stressors found in daily life.
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Sublimation
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Individual deals with emotional conflict or internal or external stressors by channeling potentially maladaptive feelings or impulses into socially acceptable behavior.(contact sports to channel angry impulses)
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Supression
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Avoiding thinking ab disturbing problems, wishes, feeling, or expressions. You unconsciously get rid of feelings by pushing them out of awareness. Avoiding thoughts by forcing self to think of other things.
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Repression
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Expelling disturbing wishes, thoughts and feelings from consciousness. The feeling content may remain detached from it's associated ideas.
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Idealization
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Attributing exaggerated positive qualities to others
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Devaluation
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Attributing exaggerated negative qualities to self or others
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Projection
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Falsely attributing to another his or her own unacceptable feelings, impulses or thoughts.
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Rationalization
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Concealing the true motivations for his or her own thoughts, actions or feelings through the elaboration of reassuring or self serving but incorrect explanations.
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High adaptive defense mechanisms
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Sublimation and suppression
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High adaptive defense mechanisms
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Sublimation and suppression
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Mental inhibitions level (compromise formation)
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Displacement, intellectualize toon, reaction formation, repression
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Minor image-distorting level
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Devaluation, idealization, denial, projection, rationalization
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Minor image-distorting level
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Devaluation, idealization, denial, projection, rationalization
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Major image-distorting level
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Projective identification, splitting, acting out, passive aggressive
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Most severe of all defense mechanisms
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Delusional projection- holding into beliefs even when evidence to the contrary is strong
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