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Loyola
Ego defenses
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Medical
Professional
05/20/2006

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guilty feelings alleviated by unsolicited generosity toward others (mafia boss makes large donation to charity)
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Altruism
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appreciating the amusing nature of an anxiety-provoking or adverse situation (nervous med student jokes about the boards)
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Humor
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process whereby one replaces an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to the wish but does not conflcit with one's value system (aggressive impulses used to succeed in business ventures)
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sublimation
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voluntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness (choosing not to think about boards until the week before the exam)
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suppression
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Which are mature ego defenses?
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Sublimation, Altruism, Suppression, Humor(Mature women wear a SASH)
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Unacceptable feelings are expressed through actions (tantrums)
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acting out
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temporary drastic change in personality, memory or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress (extreme forms can result in mult. personalities)
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dissociation
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avoidance of awareness of a painful reality (a common reaction in newly diagnosed AIDS and CA)
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denial
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process whereby avoided ideas/feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object (mom yells at kid b/c she is angry at husband)
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displacement
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partially remaining at more childish level of development (men fixating on sports)
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fixation
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modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (abused person becomes an abuser)
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identification
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separation of feelings from ideas and events (describing murder in detail with no emotional response)
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isolation
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proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, ususally to avoid self blame (saying that a job wasn't impt after getting fired)
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rationalization
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process whereby a warded-off idea or feeling is replaced by an emphasis on the opposite (a pt with libidinous thoughts enters a monastery)
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reaction formation
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turning back the maturation clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world (seen in children under stress (bedwetting) and pts on dialysis (crying))
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regression
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involuntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness--the basic mechanism underlying all the others)
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repression
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belief that ppl are either good or bad (a pt says that all nurses are cold and insensitive and all drs are warm and friendly)
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splitting
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