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16 Cards in this Set
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Acting out
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Unacceptable feelings and thoughts expressed through actions
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Dissociation
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Temporary drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress.
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Denial
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Avoidance of awareness of a painful reality
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Displacement
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Process whereby avoided ideas and feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object.
Ex. Mother yells at child bc she is angry at husband. |
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Fixation
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partially remaining at a more childish level of development
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Identification
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Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (though not necessarily admired)
ex. abused child becomes abuser |
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Isolation of affect
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Separation of feelings from ideas and events
Ex. describing murder in graphic detail with no emotional response |
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Projection
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unacceptable internal impulse attributed to external source
ex. a man who wants another woman thinks his wife is cheating on him |
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Rationalization
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Proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame.
ex. after getting fired, claiming the job was not important anyway |
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Reaction formation
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a warded off idea or feeling is replaced by an emphasis on its opposite
ex. a patient with libidinous thoughts enters a monastery |
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Regression
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turning back maturational clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world.
ex. seen in children under stress and in patients on dialysis |
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Repression
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involuntary withholding of idea of feeling from conscious awareness.
ex. not remembering a conflictural or traumatic experience |
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Splitting
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belief that people are all good or bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity
ex. a patient says all nurses are cold/insensitive but that the doctors are warm and friendly |
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Mature: Altruism
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guilty feelings alleviated by unsolicited generosity towards others
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Mature: Sublimation
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one replaces an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is simillar to the wish but does not conflict with one's value system
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Mature: Suppression
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voluntary withholding of an idea/feeling from conscious awareness (v. repression)
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