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UT Southwestern - Human Behavior - Defense Mechanisms

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show 1) Normal behavior 2) Used to deal with a harsh reality 3) Development 4) Illness behavior 5) Clarify psychiatric disorders  
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show When something happens now, it is a facsimile of calamities of childhood  
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What are adaptive mechanisms?   show
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show 1) inflexible, 2) motivated by past needs, 3) distorted reality too much, 4) ends gratification & blocks emotion  
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show 1) Narcissistic <5yo, 2) Immature 3-16yo, 3) Neurotic 3-90yo, 4) Mature 12-90yo  
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show <5yo normal. 1) Denial (i.e. deny disease), 2) Delusional Projection (i.e. interpret "signs" from environment saying everything okay).  
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What are Immature Defenses?   show
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show 3-90 yo. 1 Intellectualization (logic not feeling). 2 Repression (forget dentist appt). 3 Displacement (kick dog not boss). 4 Reaction Formation (think mean then act overly nice). 5 Undoing (be mean then overly nice). 6 Dissociation (emotional detachment)  
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What are Mature Defenses?   show
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show Denial (Narcissistic)  
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When a diabetic woman volunteers to speak with medical students, what defense mechanism is that?   show
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show 1) Personality Disorders (i.e. girl subjugated to father acts like "wounded bird" in adult relationships), 2) Anxiety Disorder, 3) OCD, 4) Mask organic brain syndrome w/delusional projection, 5) Schizophrenia  
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show Men with immature defenses became ill and died, while men with mature defenses stayed healthy  
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