Defense Mechanisms
Accusing another person of having one's own attitudes, feelings, or purposes.
What is Projection?
What is a panic attack?
a false belief
What is delusion?
relating to someone very personal or private
What is Intimate
the state of feeling happy, healthy, and content
what is well-being
The conscious refusal to take a threat seriously.
What is Denial?
A mental problem characterized by twisted or false ideas and beliefs
What is a thought disorder?
psychological treatment for mental or emotional disorders
What is psychotherapy?
being realistic or reasonable
What is rational
to help something or someone to grow or develop
what is nurture
The unconscious dismissal of painful impulses, desires, or fears from the conscious mind.
What is Repression?
An attempt to cope with psychological problems through eating habits
What is an eating disorder?
unusual; different from normal
abnormal
harmed; working abnormally
what is dysfunctional?
observing other people to determine how to behave
what is social comparison?
Shifting an emotion from its real object to a safer or more immediate one.
What is Displacement?
A mental problem involving an uncontrolled shift from feeling too much energetic emotion to feeling very depressed
What is bipolar disorder?
an affective disorder involving long lasting intense sadness
what is clinical depression
killing oneself
what is suicide...
actions that block a person's efforts to reach goals
what are self-defeating behaviors
A mental device one uses to protect oneself.
What are Defense Mechanisms?
A mental problem characterized by disturbed or uncontrolled emotions
form of psychotherapy that teaches a person to replace a less effective behavior pattern with a more effective one
what is behavior modification?
an irrational fear or unreasonable fear of something
what is a phobia
Give me 3 examples of Self-Defeating Behaviors
any action that blocks a person's efforts to reach goals......