Name the Primary Defense Mechanisms
(SWOPIDD)Splitting of the egoWithdrawl (Primative)Omnipotent Control Projection- Itrojection- Projective IdentificationIdealization (Primative) and DevaluationDenialDissociation
Name the Secondary Defense Mechanisims The Higher Ordered Mechanisims
SCRAT MISURRIDSexualizationCompartmentalizationRepressionActing OutTurning against the selfMoralizationIsolation SublimationUndoingRegressionRationalizationIntelectualizationDisplacement
Retreat from personal and social situationsWithdrawing into fantasy world: "auttistic fantasy"Highly perceptive of others feelings
Primary Withdrawal
If I don't acknolegde it, it isn't happeningfirst reaction to catastrophe Pollyanna PersonalitiesMain defense in Hypomanics and Manics
Denial
Awareness of locus of control in othersSome residue remains in all of us and contributes to the feelings of competenceGetting over on other people
Omnipotent Control
Primative FantasyIt occurs at different levels throughout lifeFusion with a Benevolant other translates to the fact that they are safe.Hope to be free of shame
Primative Idealization
Motivated forgetting or ignoringturning something away and keeping it at a distancemay be deliberately assigned to be unconsciousOnly applies when the ideal emotion has the power to upsetBecomes Problematic when it fails to do the job
REPRESSION
Unconscious shift to a less mature pattern of behavior- common and uncomplicatedPattern of becoming "sick" at face of life stressUsed by Hypochondriacts Infantile Personality: Reliance on regression
REGRESSION
Separating the affective experince from cognitionpsychic numbingdone by surgeonsObsessive Personality
ISOLATION
downside of the need to idealize since noone is perfect they are doomed for dissapointmentthe more the object is idealized, the more is devaluated
DEVALUATION
Lack of psychological boundry b/w self and the worldthere is no differentiation
Projection and Itrojection
the process whereby what is outside is misunderstood as coming from inside
Introjection
The process whereby what is inside is misunderstood as coming from outside
Projection
Projection and IdentificationDiscussed by KleinThe patient projects internal objects and gets the person whom they are projecting unto to behave like those objects as if the target had the same introjectsRanges from primative to advancedAssociated with Borderline
Projective Identification
Derived from a preverbal timeno object constancy, no ambivalenceAlways involves dostortionsSplit internallyCreates Splits in others
SPLITTING OF THE EGO
Higher order version of IsolationSpeak about their feelings but they are void of emotionhighest ego strength to think rationally regarding a highly emotional meaning
Intellectualization
Enables one to find a reson for EVERYTHINGMake lemonade out of lemonsNegative people apply it to all situations
RATIONALIZATION
Relative of rationalizationseeks ways to feel that it is ones duty to pursue a specific outcomeThe self righteous qualityHITLERAdvanced version of SplittingOCD PATIENTS
MORALIZATION
Permits two conflicting conditions to exist w/o conscious confusion, guilt, shame, or anxietyThere is a rift b/w incompatible cognitive setsThe golden rule or principle of looking out for #1.
COMPATMENTALIZATION
Successor to Omnipotent Magical Quality Unconscious effort to counter balanceReligious RitualsChildhood games
UNDOING
Redirectiong of some negative affect"If only I were a better person"Self attacks and negativismCommon in depressive personalities
TURNING AGAINST THE SELF
Redirection of a Drive or emotion from one object to another because the original object is to anxiety riddenTriangulation: Displacement phenomenon in family therapyLust and sexual fantansies can be displacedParataxic Distortions (Sullivan)
DISPLACEMENT
Enacting frightening scenarios- the patient turns from passive into activeActing out in therapy to induce parental reactionsExhibitionism, voyeurism, sadism, and masochism
ACTING OUT
Erotization: sexualization without acting outsexual arousal is a means of feeling alive
Sexualization
Expression of biologically based impulse in a society valuable formhealthy b/c the fostered behavior is beneficial to others
SUBLIMINATION
tendency to unconsciously assign your feelings to another personClient to Therapist
TRANSFERENCE
Redirection of the Psychotherapist's feelings unto the patientTherapist to Client
COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
re-enacting patients experience
PARALLEL PROCESS
feeling and being in touch with your clients
Concordent countertransference
Feeling how mom would feel after just having one session with the child
Complementary Countertransference
Kernberg's Three Channels of Communication
VerbalBodyAffective Transmition
Someone who has no problem having issues is known as
EGOSYNTONIC
relationships based on love and being like them relatively unconflicted
ANALITIC IDENTIFICATION
Unconscious and Problematicdefense against fear and impotence
IDENTIFICATION WITH THE AGRESSOR
Getting stuck in a Stageex. ANAL RETENTIVE
FIXATION
The three developmental levels of personality are:
NeuroticBorderlinePsychotic