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10 Cards in this Set
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Acting out |
Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings |
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Compensation |
Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies. Example a person who stutters becomes expressive writer |
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Conversion |
Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function , usually of the sensory , voluntary nervous system example pain deafness blindness |
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Decompensation |
Deterioration of existing defenses |
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Devaluation |
Frequently used by persons with borderline personality organization in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self |
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Dissociation |
Process that enables a person to split mental functions in a manner that allows him or her to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for action |
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Displacement |
Directing an Impulse wish or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object does permitting expression in a less threatening situation |
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Idealization |
Over estimation of an admirer aspect or attribute of another |
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Identification |
Universal mechanism whereby a person patterns himself or herself after a significant other |
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Defense mechanisms |
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