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Ego Defense Mechanism
Example: A physically handicapped boy is unable to participate in football, so he compensates by becoming a great scholar. |
COMPENSATION
Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one considers more desirable. |
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Ego Defense Mechanism
Example: A woman drinks alcohol every day and cannot stop, failing to acknowledge that she has a problem. |
DENIAL
Refusing to achknowledge the existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it. |
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Ego Defense Mechanism
Example: A client is angry with his physician, does not express it, but becomes verally abusive with the nurse. |
DISPLACEMENT
The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or that is neutral. |
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Ego Defense Mechanism
Example: A teenager who required lengthy rehabilitation after an accident decides to become a physical therapist as a result of his experiences. |
IDENTIFICATION
An attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring certain attributes and characteristics of an individual one admires. |
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Ego Defense Mechanism
Example: S's husband is being transferred with his job to a city far away from her parents. She hides anxiety by explaining to her parents the advantages associated with the move. |
INTELLECTUALIZATION
An attempt to avoid expressing actual emotions associated with a stressful situation by using the intellectual processes of logic, reasoning, and analysis |
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Ego Defense Mechanism
Example: Children integrate their parents' value system into the process of conscience formation. A child says to friend, "Don't cheat. Its wrong." |
INTROJECTION
Integrating the beliefs and values of another individual into one's own ego structure. |
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Ego Defense Mechanism
Example: John tells the rehab nurse, "I drink because it's the only way I can deal with my bad marriage and my worst job." |
RATIONALIZATION
Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors. |
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Ego Defense Mechanism
Example: Jane hates nursing. She attends nursing school to please her parents. During career day, she speaks to prospective students about the excellence of nursing as a career. |
REACTION FORMATION
Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors. |
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Ego Defense Mechanism
Example: When 2-year-old Jay is hospitalized for tonsillitis he will drink only from a bottle, even though his mom states he has been drinking from a cup for 6 months. |
REGRESSION
Retreating in response to stress to an earlier level of development and the comfort measures associated with that level of functioning. |
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Ego Defense Mechanism
Example: An accident victim can remember nothing about his accident. |
REPRESSION
Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness. |
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Ego Defense mechanisms
Example: A mother whose son was killed by a drunk driver channels her anger and energy into being the president of the local chapter of Mother Against Drunk Drivers. |
SUBLIMATION
Rechanneling of drives or impluses that are personally or socially unacceptable into activities that are constructive. |
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Ego Defense mechanisms
Example: Scarlett O'Hara says "I dont want to think about that now. I'll think about that tomorrow." |
SUPPRESSION
The voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness. |
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Ego Defense mechanisms
Example: A young woman describes being attacked and raped, without showing any emotion. |
ISOLATION
Separating a thought or memory from the feeling tone, or emotion associated with it. |
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Ego Defense mechanisms
Example: Sue feelings a strong sexual attraction to her track coach and tells her friend "He's coming on to me!" |
PROJECTION
Attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable to one's self to another person. |
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Ego Defense mechanisms
Example: Joe is nervous about his new job and yells at the wife. On his way home he stops and buys her some flowers. |
UNDOING
Symbolically negating or canceling out an experience that one finds intolerable. |
