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What are defense mechanisms?

Mental and emotional responses everybody uses to protect from painful experiences and feelings.

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Involves a person adopting the thoughts and behaviors of a person who has power over them.

Identification

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When people convert their emotions into psychosomatic (Physical) symptoms

Conversion (Somatization)

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Thinking you are sick as a way to avoid dealing with a situation

Hypochondriasis

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Thinking of a situation in a non-emotional term

Intellectualizing

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What are primitive defense mechanisms?

Defense mechanisms that are the first to occur developmentally

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This involves black-and-white thinking, and being unable to reconcile the positive and negative aspects of a person or a situation.

Splitting (Devaluation and idealization) 

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Not being able to see the reality of a current situation, past actions, or the impact of consequences

Denial

200

What are mature defense mechanisms?

Mature defense mechanisms may be more helpful and inflict less harm upon yourself and others.

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A way to camouflage or avoid something we cannot do well by excelling at something else.

Compensation

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Channeling feelings into safe and acceptable channels

Sublimation

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Expressing to one person or thing what you feel toward another

Displacement

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What is distortion?

Involves a person believing something to be true when it is not.

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Putting something into a different light or offering a different explanation for one's perceptions or behaviors in the face of a changing reality

Rationalizing

300

People try to be aware of any challenges that may be coming up for them, and work to create solutions to these challenges before they happen

Anticipation

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When a person behaves poorly to distract themselves and others away from whatever is distressing them.

Acting Out.

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This is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group.

Gaslighting

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"Forgetting" or putting something out of your conscious mind

Repression

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What are the 4 steps to control defense mechanisms?

Situation/Notice

Feelings

Choice

Defense

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Seeing other people as having your problem instead of seeing it in yourself

Projections

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Overcompensating by going to the opposite extreme

Reaction Formation

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Making light of a serious situation or downplaying its impact on others.

Sense of humor

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A person consciously chooses to ignore or push away unpleasant feelings, thoughts, or experiences.

Suppression

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When a person disconnects from reality to protect themselves from painful situations

Dissociation

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Wwe avoid places, people, thoughts, and memories that make us feel upset.

Avoidance