LMSW - Defense Mechanisms
Acting Out
Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)
Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another
Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another
Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable
Deterioration of existing defenses
Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action
Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)
Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)
Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)
Compensation
Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)
Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another
Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another
Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable
Deterioration of existing defenses
Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action
Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)
Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)
Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)
Conversion
Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)
Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another
Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another
Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable
Deterioration of existing defenses
Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action
Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)
Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)
Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)
Decompensation
Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)
Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another
Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another
Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable
Deterioration of existing defenses
Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action
Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)
Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)
Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)
Deniel
Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)
Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another
Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another
Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable
Deterioration of existing defenses
Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action
Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)
Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)
Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)
Devaulation
Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)
Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another
Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another
Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable
Deterioration of existing defenses
Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action
Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)
Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)
Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)
Dissociation
Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)
Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another
Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another
Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable
Deterioration of existing defenses
Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action
Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)
Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)
Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)
Displacement
Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)
Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another
Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another
Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable
Deterioration of existing defenses
Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action
Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)
Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)
Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)
Idealization
Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)
Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another
Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another
Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable
Deterioration of existing defenses
Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action
Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)
Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)
Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)
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