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| 4 mature defensive mechanism |
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| altruism, humor, sublimation, suppresion |
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| 5 immature defensive mechanism |
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| projection, splitting, regression, dissociation, acting out |
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| Unselfishly assisting others to avoid negative personal feelings |
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| A woman with poor self-image volunteers in a soup kitchen on her day off from work. |
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| Expression of feeling without causing discomfort |
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| A man who has had a leg amputated makes jokes about one-legged people |
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| Rerouting an unacceptable drive in a socially acceptable way |
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| A man whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver regularly speaks to high school students about the dangers of drinking and driving |
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| Consciously putting aside but not repressing unwanted feelings |
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| A breast cancer patient decides that she will worry about her illness for only 10 minutes per day |
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| Attributing one’s own personally unacceptable feelings to others |
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| A man who has sexual feelings for his brother’s wife begins to believe that his own wife is cheating on him |
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| Believing people or events are either all bad or all good because of intolerance of ambiguity |
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| A woman who believed her physician was godlike begins to think he is a terrible physician after he is late for an appointment with her |
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| Appearance of childlike patterns of behavior during stressful situations |
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| A hospitalized 35-year-old patient insists on only eating hot dogs, French fries, and ice cream |
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| Separation of function of mental processes |
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| A woman who was sexually abused as a child has two distinct personalities in adulthood |
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| Not believing personally intolerable facts about reality |
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| An accountant who had a myocardial infarction (MI) 2 days ago is found doing push-ups on the floor of the coronary care unit. The patient, who exercised regularly prior to the MI, states that his heart attack was not serious and that he does not want to fall behind in his fitness program. |
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| Transfer of emotion from an unacceptable to acceptable person or object |
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| A man whose so was killed by a drunk driver attacks and seriously injures a drunken street-person. |
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| Unconsciously patterning one’s behavior after that of someone who is more powerful |
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| A man who had a critical, punitive father berates and verbally insults his own son. |
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| Using the mind’s higher functions to avoid experiencing uncomfortable emotions |
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| A physician who has received a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer excessively discusses the statistics of the illness with his colleagues and family. |
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| Failing to experience the feelings associated with a stressful life event,although logically understanding the significance of the event |
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| Without showing any emotion, a woman tells her husband the results of tests that show that her cancer has metastasized |
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| Giving reasonable explanations for an unacceptable or irrational feelings |
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| A 40-year old general surgeon looses his right leg above the knee in an auto accident. After recovery from his surgery, he tells his colleagues and family members that the loss of his leg was unfortunate but beneficial to his medical practice, which helps him understand the experience of his amputee patients. |
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| Denying unacceptable feelings and adopting opposite attitudes |
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| A computer programmer who is a 38-year old man, he is subconsciously attracted to a coworker frequently argues and fights with her. |
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| Converting an unacceptable impulse or feeling into a physical symptom |
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| A 25-year old man with a new job, he is anxious and develops stiff neck the morning of the first day of work. |
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| Erasing an unacceptable event from the past by adopting acceptable behavior in the present (superstitious behavior) |
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| A woman was burglarized when she left her house unlocked. Now she repeatedly checks her door locks before leaving her house. |
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| Avoiding personally unacceptable feelings by behaving in an attention-getting, often socially inappropriate manner |
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| A teenager with a terminally ill younger sibling begins to do badly at school and argues with her parents at home |
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| sublimation vs. displacement vs. undoing vs. acting out |
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sublimation: Rerouting, transforming an unacceptable drive in a socially acceptable way.
displacement: Transfer of emotion from an unacceptable to acceptable person or object.
undoing: Erasing an unacceptable event from the past by adopting acceptable behavior in the present (superstitious behavior)
acting out: Avoiding personally unacceptable feelings by behaving in an attention-getting, often socially inappropriate manner |
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| dissociation vs. splitting |
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dissociation: Separation of function of mental processes
splitting: Believing people or events are either all bad or all good because of intolerance of ambiguity |
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| projection vs. displacement vs. reaction formation |
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projection: Attributing one’s own personally unacceptable feelings to others
displacement: Transfer of emotion from an unacceptable to acceptable person or object
reaction formation: Denying unacceptable feelings and adopting opposite attitudes
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| suppression vs. denial vs. isolation of affect |
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suppression: Consciously putting aside but not repressing unwanted feelings.
denial: Not believing personally intolerable facts about reality.
isolation of affect: Failing to experience the feelings associated with a stressful life event,although logically understanding the significance of the event. |
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| rationalization vs. intellectualization |
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rationalization: Giving reasonable explanations for an unacceptable or irrational feelings. Physician had his leg amputed, he said now he knows how his patient feels like.
intellectualization: Using the mind’s higher functions to avoid experiencing uncomfortable emotions. Physician excessively quote pancreatic statistics when he was diagnosed. |
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