Psych Tech II

Name the Primary Defense Mechanisms

Name the Secondary Defense Mechanisims
The Higher Ordered Mechanisims

Retreat from personal and social situations
Withdrawing into fantasy world: "auttistic fantasy"
Highly perceptive of others feelings

If I don't acknolegde it, it isn't happening
first reaction to catastrophe
Pollyanna Personalities
Main defense in Hypomanics and Manics

Awareness of locus of control in others
Some residue remains in all of us and contributes to the feelings of competence
Getting over on other people

Primative Fantasy
It occurs at different levels throughout life
Fusion with a Benevolant other translates to the fact that they are safe.
Hope to be free of shame

Motivated forgetting or ignoring
turning something away and keeping it at a distance
may be deliberately assigned to be unconscious
Only applies when the ideal emotion has the power to upset
Becomes Problematic when it fails to do the job

Unconscious shift to a less mature pattern of behavior- common and uncomplicated
Pattern of becoming "sick" at face of life stress
Used by Hypochondriacts
Infantile Personality: Reliance on regression

Separating the affective experince from cognition
psychic numbing
done by surgeons
Obsessive Personality

downside of the need to idealize
since noone is perfect they are doomed for dissapointment
the more the object is idealized, the more is devaluated

Lack of psychological boundry b/w self and the world
there is no differentiation

the process whereby what is outside is misunderstood as coming from inside

The process whereby what is inside is misunderstood as coming from outside

Projection and Identification
Discussed by Klein
The patient projects internal objects and gets the person whom they are projecting unto to behave like those objects as if the target had the same introjects
Ranges from primative to advanced
Associated with Borderline

Derived from a preverbal time
no object constancy, no ambivalence
Always involves dostortions
Split internally
Creates Splits in others

Higher order version of Isolation
Speak about their feelings but they are void of emotion
highest ego strength to think rationally regarding a highly emotional meaning

Enables one to find a reson for EVERYTHING
Make lemonade out of lemons
Negative people apply it to all situations

Relative of rationalization
seeks ways to feel that it is ones duty to pursue a specific outcome
The self righteous quality
HITLER
Advanced version of Splitting
OCD PATIENTS

Permits two conflicting conditions to exist w/o conscious confusion, guilt, shame, or anxiety
There is a rift b/w incompatible cognitive sets
The golden rule or principle of looking out for #1.

Successor to Omnipotent
Magical Quality
Unconscious effort to counter balance
Religious Rituals
Childhood games

Redirectiong of some negative affect
"If only I were a better person"
Self attacks and negativism
Common in depressive personalities

Redirection of a Drive or emotion from one object to another because the original object is to anxiety ridden
Triangulation: Displacement phenomenon in family therapy
Lust and sexual fantansies can be displaced
Parataxic Distortions (Sullivan)

Enacting frightening scenarios- the patient turns from passive into active
Acting out in therapy to induce parental reactions
Exhibitionism, voyeurism, sadism, and masochism

Erotization: sexualization without acting out
sexual arousal is a means of feeling alive

Expression of biologically based impulse in a society valuable form
healthy b/c the fostered behavior is beneficial to others

tendency to unconsciously assign your feelings to another person
Client to Therapist

Redirection of the Psychotherapist's feelings unto the patient
Therapist to Client

re-enacting patients experience

feeling and being in touch with your clients

Feeling how mom would feel after just having one session with the child

Kernberg's Three Channels of Communication

Someone who has no problem having issues is known as

relationships based on love and being like them
relatively unconflicted

Unconscious and Problematic
defense against fear and impotence

Getting stuck in a Stage
ex. ANAL RETENTIVE

The three developmental levels of personality are: