Psych Tech II

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