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| guilty feelings alleviated by unsolicited generosity toward others (mafia boss makes large donation to charity) |
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| appreciating the amusing nature of an anxiety-provoking or adverse situation (nervous med student jokes about the boards) |
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| process whereby one replaces an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to the wish but does not conflcit with one's value system (aggressive impulses used to succeed in business ventures) |
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| voluntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness (choosing not to think about boards until the week before the exam) |
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| Which are mature ego defenses? |
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| Sublimation, Altruism, Suppression, Humor(Mature women wear a SASH) |
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| Unacceptable feelings are expressed through actions (tantrums) |
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| temporary drastic change in personality, memory or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress (extreme forms can result in mult. personalities) |
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| avoidance of awareness of a painful reality (a common reaction in newly diagnosed AIDS and CA) |
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| process whereby avoided ideas/feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object (mom yells at kid b/c she is angry at husband) |
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| partially remaining at more childish level of development (men fixating on sports) |
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| modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (abused person becomes an abuser) |
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| separation of feelings from ideas and events (describing murder in detail with no emotional response) |
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| proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, ususally to avoid self blame (saying that a job wasn't impt after getting fired) |
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| process whereby a warded-off idea or feeling is replaced by an emphasis on the opposite (a pt with libidinous thoughts enters a monastery) |
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| turning back the maturation clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world (seen in children under stress (bedwetting) and pts on dialysis (crying)) |
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| involuntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness--the basic mechanism underlying all the others) |
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| belief that ppl are either good or bad (a pt says that all nurses are cold and insensitive and all drs are warm and friendly) |
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