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What are defenses?
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Unconscious learned behaviors, typically learned during childhood
adaptive to psychologically difficult/traumatic situations |
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Define primitive defenses
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First learned in childhood, have not evolved into more complex responses to psychological challenges.
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What are the primitive defenses?
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Denial
Regression Acting out Projection Reaction formation - saying the opposite of what you really feel |
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What are the more mature defenses?
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Repression
Displacement (of emotion) Intellectualization Rationalization Undoing (e.g. abusive husband buys gifts) |
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Define mature defenses
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Constructive and helpful to most adults, but require practice and effort to put into daily use
Focused on helping a person be a more constructive component of his/her environment |
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What are the mature defenses?
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Sublimation - channel unacceptable impulses & thoughts into more acceptable or productive ones (e.g. art when upset)
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