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Denial
The refusal to acknowledge what has, is, or will happen.
displacement
Place unwanted/ unpleasant feelings on to someone less threatening or on an innocent bystander.
Projection
Taking your own emotions and placing it onto others. (Depressed, paranoid, anxiety)
Projective identification
Mostly used with clients diagnosed with BPD, identifies someone else with their feelings, however he/she does not demonstrate those emotions.
Introjection
To identify characteristics of a person and incorporate them into ones own self.
Splitting
Used by BPD
they identify a person as either all good or all bad
Rationalization
Making excuses and/or justifying actions to avoid unwanted feelings.
Intellectualization
Using logic and reason to avoid dealing with your emotions.
Sublimation
A healthy redirection of an emotion. Ie kick boxing class
Repression/suppression
Repression is I often thought of as the parent of all defenses.
repression/suppression involves putting painful thoughts and memories out of our minds and forgetting them.
Reaction Formation
When we have a reaction that is too painful or threatening we turn it into the opposite. Experience a family loss but shows a happy mood.
Undoing
Taking back ones unwanted behaviors through praises and gifts.
Used by parents n DV abusers.
Isolation of Affect
Expressing no emotionality when confronted with difficult events.
Author
Bejanprincess
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224903
Card Set
Defense Mechanism
Description
Social work defense mechanisms
Updated
2013-07-01T00:51:19Z
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