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Repression
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Key mechanism; expressed clinically by amnesia symptomatic forgetting serving to banish unacceptable ideas, fantasies, affects or impulses from consciousness
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Compensation
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Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies.
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Conversion
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Represed urges expressed and disguised as a disturbance of body function usually of the sensory,voluntary nervous system: pain, deafness, blindness, etc.
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Denial
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Primitive defense; inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behaviors or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable.
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Displacement
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Directing an impulse wish or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less treating situation.
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Dissociation
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A process which enables a person to split mental functions in a manner that allows him to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action either because cant remember bad behavior or is not experienced as his own, like day dreaming
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Idealization
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Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another. May be conscious or unconscious
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Identification
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Universal mechanism whereby a person patterns himself after a significant other. Plays major role in development, especially super ego development
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Identification with aggressor
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Mastering anxiety by identifying with a powerful aggressor to counteract feelings of helplessness and to feel powerful oneself.
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Incorporarion
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primitive mechanism in which psychic representation of a person (or parts of a person) is/are figuratively ingested.
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Inhabition
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loss of motivation to engage in (usually pleasurable) activity avoided because it might stir up conflict over forbidden impules.
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Introjection
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loved or hated external objects are symbolically absorbed within self (converse of projection) in severe depressionunconcious unacceptable hatred is turned toward self.
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Isolation of Affect
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unacceptable impulse,idea act is seperated from the original emotional charge associated with it.
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Projection
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primitive defense; attributing one's disowned attitudes, wishes feelings , urges to some external object.
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Rationalzation
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third line of defense; not unconcious. Giving beleivable explanation for irrational behavior;motivated by unacceptable unconcious of by defenses used to compe with such wishes.
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Reaction formation
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person adopts affects, ideas attitude behaviors that are opposites of those he harbors conciouslyor uncniously; i.e. being excessively sweet to mask unconcious anger.
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regression
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partial or symbolic return to infantile patternns of reacting or thinking. Can be in service to the ego i.e. dependence during illness
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Sublimation
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potionally maladaptive feelings and behaviors are diverted into socially acceptable, adaptive channels ex. anger into athletics.
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Substitution
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unattaunable or unacceptable goal, emotion or object is replaced by one more attainable or acceptable.
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Symbolization
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a mental representation stands for some other thing, class of things or attributes. This mwchanism undelies dream formation and other symptoms such as conversion reactions, obbsessions, compulsions) with a link between the latent meaning of the symptom and the symbol. Usually unconcious.
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Undoing
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a person uses words or actions to symbolically reverse or negate unacceptable thoughts, feelings or actions. ex. compulsively washing hands to deal with obsessive thoughts.
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Turning against self
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defense to deflect hostile aggression or other unacceptable impulses from another to self.
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Splitting
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defensive mechnism associated with boarderline personality organization in which a person perceives self and others as all good or all bad. It is a process which introjects of opposites quality are kept apart resulting in ego weakness that can not neutralize aggression This process leads to a selective lack of impulse control. Splitting serves to protect the good objects. A person cannot intergrate the good and bad in people.
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Projective Identification
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a form of projection utilized by persons with boarderline personality organizations. FOR EXAM:UNCONCIOUSLY PERCEIVING OTHER'S BEHAVIORS AS A REFLECTION OF OPNES OWN IDENTITY.
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Devaluation
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Defense mechanism frequently used by persons with boarderline personality in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another. It is the split of primitive idealization.
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Acting Out
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emotional conflict is delt with through actions rather than feelings
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Decompensation
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deterioration of existing defenses.
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