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Psychlogical Defense Mechanisms |
Help the ego cope with anxiety, frustration, and unacceptable impulses. relieve tension between inner psychological reality and the demands of the external world each person has their own set of psychological defenses that make up their personality. |
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Primative Defense mechanisms |
Denial, Reaction formation, and projection because they are more out of touch with reality |
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Higher level of functioning defense mechanisms |
Sublimation, undoing, rationalization, displacement, identification, and intellectualization |
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Rationalization |
plausible reasons justify an action or opinion helps cope with disappointments by blaming external circumstances |
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Repression |
refuses to let into awareness unacceptable impulses but remains unconsciously operative in behavior |
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Displacement |
affect in transferred from object to another |
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Identification |
process by which qualities of external object are absorbed into one's personality |
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Intellectulization |
process by which content is separated from repressed affect |
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Asceticism |
characterized by rigor or self-denial |
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Reaction Formation |
process by which unacceptable impulses are expressed as their opposites helps relieves anxiety and guilt associated with the true impulse |
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Introjection and Internalization |
the internalization of outside events or characteristics of other people |
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Projection |
places unacceptable feelings from the person's feelings them onto another person |
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Denial |
distorts reality and does not acknowledge emotion
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Sublimation |
a person's sublimation will displace unacceptable instincts |
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Undoing |
process by which we avid being punishes for undesirable thoughts or actions |