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Defence Mechanisms pp 25-28
Licensing Exam
41
Social Work
Graduate
07/13/2011

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Anna Freud identified:1 - 15
Compensation
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Seeking success in one area of life as a substitute for lack in another area because of personal or environmental abilities/barriers. ex: Napoleon; sports/chess
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Conversion
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Transformation of anxiety into physical dysfunction; no physiological basis. ex:paralysis, blindness
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Denial
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Refusal to acknowledge aspects of reality to protect self from overwhelming anxiety ex: drinking; Scott
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Displacement
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Shifting negative feelings about a person onto another person or situation. ex: Joe Bloom/coconuts
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Identification
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Anxiety is handled through identifying with a person or thing producing anxiety. ex: kidnapper; Patti Hearst
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Isolation Affect
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Painful feelings are separated from the incident that triggered them initially. ex: compartmentalizing; rape/matter of fact attitude
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Intellectualization
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Reasoning to block difficult feelings by removing feelings/emotions from stressful event. ex: illness
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Projection
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A person denies their own negative characteristics and instead sees them as another's. ex: Borderline Disorder
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Rationalization
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Substituting acceptable logical reason/cause for an action rather than identifying the actual real motivation. ex: Jennifer vs. Kaia & Kasia
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Reaction Formation
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Adopting behavior that is the opposite of instinctual/real feelings/behavior. ex: expressed sympathies for oppressed but really prejudiced. ex: LGBTQ acceptance
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Regression
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Reverting to primitive modes of coping associated with earlier, safer development stages. ex: Tim/temper tantrum
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Repression
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Unconscious pushing/burying of anxiety-producing thoughts or issues out of conscious into unconscious. ex: Scott & (M&C)
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Sublimation
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Intolerable; unacceptable drives or desires are diverted/modified into acceptable activities. ex: me
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Substitution
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Person replaces unacceptable goal with an acceptable goal. ex: me
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Undoing
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Person engages in repetitious ritual attempting to reverse an unacceptable action. ex: Lady McBeth "out out damn spot"
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Other Defense Mechanisms (Not A. Freud) p.26 Acting Out
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dealing with emotional stress/conflict (internal/external) by exhibiting observable behavior rather than feeling or reflecting. Not Antisocial Behavior because defensive acting out is directly related to stress/emotional conflict. ex: me
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Affiliation
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Person shares emotional conflict/stress for support/help rather than putting the responsibility on them. ex: MSW Family
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Aim inhibition
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A person places limits on instinctual demands and accepts modified fulfillment of goals/desires. ex: doctor/pharmacist
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Altruism
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Person deals with stress/conflict and emotions by selflessly dedicating life to others and receiving vicarious gratification. ex: Sister ?
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Autistic Fantasy
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Daydreams excessively substituting reality and real action. ex: Scott
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Avoidance
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Person's refusal to participate or encounter situations/objects that represent unconscious, aggressive, sexual impulses and the possible punishment for those impulses. ex: phobias
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Deflection
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Redirect attention away from self and on to another. ex: Cat
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Devaluation
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Person deals with emotional conflict by attributing negative qualities to self or others. ex Laurie
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Dissociation
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Compartmentalizing/separating activities or emotional conflict from main portion of consciousness. ex: living two lives - me
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Fixation
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Interruption of normal development short of maturity/independence. ex: not leaving home
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Help-rejecting/ Complaining
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Person deals with emotions/stress by asking for help the rejecting it. Can be hostile when refusing. ex: CWS, Ronda
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Humor
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Person deals with emotional conflict/stress by pointing out amusing aspects of the situation. ex: Cat
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Idealization
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Over estimating the desirable qualities; underestimating undesirable limitations of something important to person. ex: Clair; salon idea
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Identification
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Unconscious/conscious modeling of another's behavior or style. not pathological. ex: Thomas Crown Affair/me
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Incorporation
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Earliest developmental mechanisms; child process by observation, assimilates into ego/super ego values, attitudes, and preferences of parents. ex: Laurie and me
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Introjection
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Unconsciously incorporating ideas, attributes,mental images into one's own personality.
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Isolation
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Person able to split off emotions from a thought or experience; flight attendant, shut off emotion during stress then reacts later. ex: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Omnipotence
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Person dealing with stress/emotional state by feeling/acting superior. ex: Andy Farley
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Passive Aggressive
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Person directs aggression toward another in an indirect/unassertive manner thereby avoiding the emotional stress of dealing with the other person's reaction. ex: SCOTT
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Projection Identification vs. Anna Freud's "Projection" p.28
Projection is intrapsychic dynamics & PI is a primitive form of relating.
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PI the person is consciously recognizes the attributes that are projected and considers them justifiable. PI & P notable difference: PI feels at one with other person - not so in P. For receiver PI is much more disturbing and more difficult to deal with/treat.
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Resistance
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DM that prevents bringing repressed/unconscious feelings info to awareness; relieving stress/anxiety with memories or insights. ex: Jennifer, Scott, me
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Self-Assertion
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Healthy - Person deals with emotional conflict or stress by expressing feelings/thoughts directly in non-coercive/ non-manipulating manner ex: Julia is teaching me
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Somatization
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Person experiences physical symptoms of the body's sympathetic and parasympathetic system as the result of conflict/stress. ex: Scott/sleeping?
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Splitting
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Trying to relate to significant others, person may "split" in 2 parts: good and bad, to cope with painful feelings associated with that person. Ronda & me; Parents & me
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Suppression
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Person refuses consciously/intentionally not to think about something that is interfering with current functioning. ex: me
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Symbolization
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Handling emotional conflicts by turning them into symbols - viewed as displacement of deeper desires. ex: interpreting a dream.
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