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Defense Mechanisms (Immature defenses (splitting - perceiving one's…
Defense Mechanisms
Immature defenses
repression - reomving memories/impulses/thoughts from awareness - NOT subject to voluntary recall - can't do anything about it, but they remain with you - manifest in other ways
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displacement - emotions transferred from original object, direct to more acceptable substitute
reaction formation - directing overt behavior/attitude in the opposite direction of one's underlying, unacceptable impulses
projection - attributing to others one's own unacceptable impulses, thoughts, desires
rationalization - thinking up logical, socially approved reasons for behavior
intellectualization - use of scientific/abstract thinking as a means of avoiding affectively painful realities/thoughts
isolation - separating emotional components from a thought, resulting in repression of either emotion or idea
splitting - perceiving one's self and others as all or all bad, rather than experiencing self or others ambivalently (both good and bad present)
personality integration - young kids don't distinguish themselves from mom - but then they realize mom is separate - good mom and bad mom - takes a while to realize they're the same person
trauma and abuse prevent integration - preferable to remain split - fear that if you integrate, the good will be gone - overshadowed by the badness
but if you don't integrate, this is how you see everything
projective identification - person induces, by projection, their own feelings in another person and other person unknowingly acts out those feelings
Mature defenses
suppression - deliberate conscious effort to control/conceal disturbing thoughts, feelings, actions (ability to come back to it - different from repression)
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altruism - taking negative experience and turning it into socially positive one (outward focused - sublimation more internally based)
universal, part of adaptive function
maladaptive if - reality extremely distorted, defense rigid (the more flexible the better), does it actually serve the goal of adaptive equilibrium
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Becoming a self
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introjection - loved/hated person or part of person incorporated into one's self but retains identity of original person
identification - taking over attitudes/behaviors of others and experiencing those attributes as part of one's own identity