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Chronic Anxiety
is anxiety that the person has lived with for a time. According to the ego psychologists suggests that in a nurturing environment the developing personality incorporates the primary caregiver’s positive attributes, which allows the child to tolerate anxiety.
The child may become anxiety ridden, a state that often covers up what?
overwhelming, angry, and hostile impulses
Levels of Anxiety. Mild
occurs in the normal everyday living.
Levels of Aniexty: Moderate
As anxiety escalates, the perceptual field narrows, and some details are excluded from observation.
Levels of aniexty: Severe
the perceptual field is greatly reduced. The person may focus on one particular detail or many scattered details.
Panic Levels of Anxiety
Is the most extreme form and results in markedly disturbed behavior. The person is not able to process what is going on in the environment and may lose touch with reality.
Defense mechanisms protect the person from what?
painful awareness of feeling and memories that can provoke overwhelming anxiety
Adaptive use of defense mechanisms help people to achieve what?
to lower anxiety so one can achieve goals in acceptable ways.
When do defense mechanisms operate?
Operates all the time. However, when the individual is faced with situations that triggers high anxiety, the person may become more rigid in the use of defense mechanisms and may revert to using less mature defenses
Vaillant summarized five of the most important properties of defense mechanisms, which are?
1. Defenses are major means of managing CONFLICT and AFFECT.2. Defenses are relatively unconscious.3. Defenses are discrete from one another.4. Although defenses are often the hallmarks of major psychiatric syndromes, they are reversible.5. Defenses are adaptive as well as pathological
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