What level/type of defense mechanism are the following: conversion, denial, distortion, splitting, extreme projection, delusional projection?

Level 1: Pathological Defenses

What level/type of defense mechanism are the following: acting out, fantasy, idealization, passive aggression, projection, projective identification, somatization?

Level 2: Immature Defenses

What level/type of defense mechanism are the following: displacement, dissociation, hypochondriasis, isolation, intellectualization, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression, undoing, withdrawing

Level 3: Neurotic Defenses

What level/type of defense mechanism are the following: altruism, humor, anticipation, identification, sublimation, introjection, thought suppression ?

Level 4: Mature Defenses

What type of defense mechanisms present for an individual to effectively rearrange external experiences to eliminate the need to cope with reality?

Pathological Defenses

delusions about a person's external reality, usually of a paranoid/persecutory kind

Delusional projection

the blatant denial of a moral or psychological deficiency, which is perceived as a deficiency by another individual or group

Extreme projection

the expression of a intra-psychic conflict as a physical symptom, examples include blindness, deafness, paralysis or numbness. also known as "hysteria" in past references

Conversion

Which type of defense mechanisms are often present in adults, and help lessen distress and anxiety provoked by a threatening and /or uncomfortable reality? (frequent use of these defenses is often seen as socially undesirable and found frequently in major depressive disorders and personality disorders)

Immature Defenses

Which type of defense mechanisms are fairly common in adults; they can have short-term advantages but result in long-term problems in relationships, work, and enjoying life (if used as one's primary method of coping with reality)

Neurotic Defenses

tendency to retreat into fantasy to resolve inner and/or outer conflicts

Fantasy / Fantasizing

Which type of defense mechanisms are commonly seen in individuals with psychosis, in dreams, and throughout childhood?

Pathological Defenses

an object of projection invokes in that person precisely the thoughts/feelings/behaviors that are projected

Projective identification

A manager feels insecure and anxious about their own competency, so they frequently over-criticize their employee. The employee starts to feel anxious and doubt themselves, like the manager, as a result- despite their own performance being good.

Projective identification

Which defense mechanism is a primitive form of paranoia?

Projection

An office gossip who frequently talks about other coworkers, accuses others in the workplace of spreading rumors about them.

Projection

The transformation of negative feelings towards others into negative feelings toward self, pain, illness, or anxiety

Somatization

What's the difference between somatization and conversion?

Somatization = experiencing psychological distress via physical symptoms. In other words, mental and psychological stress show themselves in the form of physical symptoms, like pain, rather than through the more emotional symptoms we often associate with mental health disorders. Conversion refers to the phenomenon of a mental disturbance (or distress) manifesting itself via physical or psychological symptoms, like those we have discussed above. These two definitions are very similar, and they both refer to the idea of a mental health issue showing itself through physical symptoms. However, conversion disorder is associated with neurological symptoms rather than physical pain or irritation (which is more in line with somatic symptom disorder). For example, conversion could be associated with a neurological symptom like blindness, which is more easily identified, while somatization could be associated with the patient feeling physical pain.

a defense mechanism proposed by Anna Freud whereby the the ego reverts to an earlier stage of development usually in response to stressful situations.

Regression

Teenagers may giggle uncontrollably when introduced into a social situation involving the opposite sex. What type of defense mechanism is this?

Regression

This defense mechanism takes place when we manage to displace our unacceptable emotions into behaviors which are constructive and socially acceptable, rather than destructive activities.

Sublimation

Fixation at the oral stage that later manifests as oral pleasure-seeking, such as thumb-sucking, chewing a pen, or smoking.

Sublimation

A musician channels painful emotions about a breakup into their songwriting for a new album.

Sublimation

This is a defense mechanism which Anna Freud called “believing the opposite." A person goes beyond denial and behaves in the opposite way to how they actually think or feel.

Reaction formation

George is openly hostile and prejudiced against the LGBTQ community but has experienced confusion throughout his life about being attracted to other men. His hostility towards the queer community helps George convince himself that he's straight. Which defense mechanism is at play?

Reaction formation

Which defense mechanism involves taking into your own personality characteristics of someone else, because doing so solves some emotional difficulty?

Introjection

_____ is very important to Freudian theory as the mechanism by which we develop our superegos.

Introjection

Which mechanism is used when an older child or teenager imitates his or her favorite star, musician, or sports hero in an effort to establish an identity?

Introjection

_____ is a defense mechanism. Sándor Ferenczi proposed it. Anna Freud developed it further. It involves the victim adopting the behavior of a person who is more powerful and hostile towards them.

Identification with the aggressor

Which defense mechanism takes place when a victim is experiencing "Stockholm Syndrome"?

Identification with the aggressor