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Anna Freud identified:1 - 15
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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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| Transformation of anxiety into physical dysfunction; no physiological basis. ex:paralysis, blindness |
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| Refusal to acknowledge aspects of reality to protect self from overwhelming anxiety ex: drinking; Scott |
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| Shifting negative feelings about a person onto another person or situation. ex: Joe Bloom/coconuts |
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| Anxiety is handled through identifying with a person or thing producing anxiety. ex: kidnapper; Patti Hearst |
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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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| Reasoning to block difficult feelings by removing feelings/emotions from stressful event. ex: illness |
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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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| Substituting acceptable logical reason/cause for an action rather than identifying the actual real motivation. ex: Jennifer vs. Kaia & Kasia |
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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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| Reverting to primitive modes of coping associated with earlier, safer development stages. ex: Tim/temper tantrum |
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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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| Intolerable; unacceptable drives or desires are diverted/modified into acceptable activities. ex: me |
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| Person replaces unacceptable goal with an acceptable goal. ex: me |
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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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| Person shares emotional conflict/stress for support/help rather than putting the responsibility on them. ex: MSW Family |
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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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| Person deals with stress/conflict and emotions by selflessly dedicating life to others and receiving vicarious gratification. ex: Sister ? |
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| Daydreams excessively substituting reality and real action. ex: Scott |
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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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| Redirect attention away from self and on to another. ex: Cat |
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| Person deals with emotional conflict by attributing negative qualities to self or others. ex Laurie |
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| Compartmentalizing/separating activities or emotional conflict from main portion of consciousness. ex: living two lives - me |
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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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| Person deals with emotional conflict/stress by pointing out amusing aspects of the situation. ex: Cat |
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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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| Unconscious/conscious modeling of another's behavior or style. not pathological. ex: Thomas Crown Affair/me |
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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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| Unconsciously incorporating ideas, attributes,mental images into one's own personality. |
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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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| Person dealing with stress/emotional state by feeling/acting superior. ex: Andy Farley |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Person refuses consciously/intentionally not to think about something that is interfering with current functioning. ex: me |
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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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