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What are defense mechanisms?

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Automatic, unconscious, involuntary activities used by individuals to protect ego minimize pain and anxiety

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Enables person to split mental functions that allow them to express unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for actions

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disassociation

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identifying with some idea or object so strongly that it becomes part of you; opposite of projection

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introjection

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refocusing of aggression or emotion evoked from external force into self

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inversion

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Directing a feeling toward a person or situation that is not the real cause ex. Man angry with his boss kicks a dog

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displacement

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replacing some painful feeling with complete opposite ex. Black person joins KKK

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reaction formation

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manifestation of emotional anxiety into physical feelings

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somatization

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Events that are too painful are removed from conscious mind. Expressed clinically as amnesia or selective forgetting

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repression

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Active refusal to recognize reality ex. Addict says it is not an an issue

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denial

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Attributing one’s own disowned attitude to something else ex. Instead if saying I don’t like then you say they don’t like me

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projection

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Clts make up for deficiencies ex. Short man becomes cocky

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compensation

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Overestimation of an admired attribute of another

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idealization

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Person patterns themselves after significant other

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identification

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Loss of motivation to engage in pleasurable things because it might stir up conflict over forbidden impulses

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inhibition

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Giving believable explanation for irrational behavior

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rationalization

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Partial or symbolic return to more infantile patterns of reacting or thinking

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regression

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Diverting maladaptive behavior into socially acceptable activity ex. Channeling anger in sports

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sublimation

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Clt’s existing defenses deteriorate

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decompensation

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Name three defense mechanisms associated with borderline personality disorder

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Splitting - Perception of self or others is all good or all bad
Projective identification - unconsciously perceiving other’s behavior as a reflection of one’ own
Devaluation - attributing negative qualities to self or others

20
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What is the difference between defense mechanisms and coping strategies?

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Coping = voluntary 
Defense = involuntary
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Clts will get into trouble to get attention instead of talking about issues

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acting out

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Mastering anxiety by identifying with a powerful aggressor to counteract feelings of helplessness

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identification with the aggressor

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clt avoids uncomfortable emotions by focusing on facts and logic

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intellectualism

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Unacceptable impulse, idea, act is separated from its original memory source

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isolation of affect

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Unattainable or unacceptable goal, emotion, or object is replaces by one more attainable

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substitution

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Deflect hostile aggression or unacceptable impulses from another to self

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Turning against self

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Using words or actions to symbolically reverse or negate unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or actions

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undoing

28
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In this mechanism clts accept goal related outcomes perceived as less ideal because of beliefs that it is more realistics

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aim inhibition