_ SPECIFIC DEFENSE/COPING MECHANISM
Coping mechanisms are done consciously
COMPENSATION a conscious or unconscious attempt
‘Yo balance a real or imagined deficiency in one area
by developing other personal qualities to hide
weakness.
[ON isthe intentional exclusion of thoughts
Trait consciousness. It is the conscious form of
repression.
JON>Is a unconscious and involuntary
forgetting of unacceptable ideas or impulses into the
unconscious. The earliest type of defense available
the basis ofall defense mechanisms
REGRESSION it is the backward turning to an earlier
patterns of behavior to solve personal conflict.
CONVERSION, transforming an emotional problem
into a physical symptom or outlet. An unconscious
device. Not the same as malingering.
DENIAL, the unconscious disapproval of thoughts,
feelings, wishes, needs which are consciously
unacceptable. Closely related to rationalization. Not
the same as lying which is conscious. It protects the
person from finding out that he may be wrong.
RATIONALIZATION isan attempt to make
unacceptable feelings and behavior consciously
tolerable and acceptable. Helps to avoid social
disapproval and to bolster flagging self-esteem; to
“save face”
INTELECTUALIZATION is the overuse-of-jntellectual
concepts and words etfective experience or
expression of feelings.
FIXATION, the arrest of maturation at an earlier level
of psychosexual development.
IDENTIFICATION is the unconscious, wishful adoption
(internalization) of the personality characteristics or
identify of another individual generally one possessing
attributes which the subject envies or admires
WTROIECTION is the symbolic assimilation or talking
into one’s self a loved or hated persons.or external
‘object, This is a form of identification,
PROJECTION, unconsciously making another persons
Or circumstances responsible for one’s unacceptable
thought or actions. It involves repression of
undesirable qualities,
REACTION FORMATATION, attitudes, motives and
needs that are directly opposite of those consciously
acknowledged. (overcompensation)
SUBLIMATION is the diversion of consciously
Unacceptable instinctual drives into personally and
socially accepted areas.
SUBSTITUTION is the replacement of an unacceptable
need, attitude or emotion with one that is more
acceptable. Comparable to displacement.
DISSOCIATION, the unconscious separation of painful
feelings and emotions from an acceptable idea,
situation or object; temporary alteration of
consciousness or identity,
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= UNDOING it is an unconscious, symbolic attempt to
eliminate the existence of a previous dreadful/painful
experience
= SYMBOLIZATION, a person attaches significance (>
shapes of objects, colors, materials, slogan, words,
etc.
= DISPLACEMENT, discharging of pent-up feelings from
‘one person, idea or object to another.
ISOLATION, the separation of an unacceptable impulse
act idea from its memory origin, thereby removing the
‘emotional charge.
= FANTASY, a conscious creation or distortion of
unacceptable fears, wishes and behaviors; use of
imagination or daydreaming.
NB: The goal of the nurse is to transform/translate the
patient’s defensive thinking into non-defensive, direct thinking.
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