EGO DEFENSE MECHANISM COMPENSATION OVER ACHIEVEMENT IN ONE AREA TO OFFSET REAL OR PERCEIVED DEFICIENCIES IN ANOTHER AREA.

. NURSE WITH LOW SELF-ESTEEM WORKS DOUBLE SHIFTS SO HER SUPERVISOR WILL LIKE HER. CONVERSION repressed ideas, conflicts, or impulses are manifested by various bodily symptoms A teenager forbidden to see X-rated movies is tempted to do so by friends and develops blindness, and the teenager is unconcerned about the loss of sight. DENIAL Person denies the existence of some external reality Diabetic person eating chocolates DISPLACEMENT Transfer of an emotion from its original cause or object into substitute object A child is mad at his mother, and goes to his room and break his favourite toy DISSOCIATION Driving the highway and taking several exits without noticing or remembering Doing things without noticing that he/she is doing such things Dealing with emotional conflict by a temporary alteration in consciousness or identity

FIXATION (Moving back to earlier stage) Unresolved conflict during psychosexual stage of development, leaving the individual focused on this stage and unable to move onto the next. Refers to a persistent focus of the ids pleasure-seeking energies on an earlier stage of psychosexual development. Lack of a clear sense of identity as an adult. Immobilization of a portion of the personality resulting from unsuccessful completion of tasks in a developmental stage. REGRESSION (Moving back to earlier stage) Regresses back to earlier stage Moving back to a previous developmental stage in order to feel safe or have needs met Man acts like a 4 year old child because he is not his girlfriends attention SUPRESSION (attempt to forget) Conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts and feelings from conscious awareness A student decides not to think about a parents illness in order to study for a test. REPRESSION (attempt to forget) Unconsciously forgot Woman has no memory of the mugging she suffered yesterday. IDENTIFICATION (Imitation) Integrates to himself Modelling actions and opinions of influential others while searching for identity, or aspiring to reach a personal, social, or occupational goal Nursing student becoming a critical care nurse because this is the specialty of an instructor she admires. INTROJECTION (Imitation) Accepting another persons attitudes, beliefs, and values as ones own Imitates someone who he admires

INTELLECTUALIZATION Separation of the emotions of a painful event or situation from the facts involved Acknowledging the facts but not the emotions Person shows no emotional expression when discussing serious car accident. allows us to avoid thinking about the stressful, emotional aspect of the situation and instead focus only on the intellectual component isolation of affect RATIONALIZATION making an excuse for a problem Excusing own behavior to avoid guilt, responsibility, conflict, anxiety, or loss of self-respect Student blames failure on teacher being mean Using a reason which is not the real reason to justify REACTION FORMATION Acting the opposite of what one thinks or feels Person who despises the boss tells everyone what a great boss she is. PROJECTION Unconscious blaming of unacceptable inclinations or thoughts on an external object attributing to someone what one cannot acknowledge as his a person displaces generally negative feelings onto another individual a toddler who is afraid of the dark tells her parents her teddy bear is afraid.

SUBLIMATION Substituting a socially acceptable activity for an impulse that is unacceptable Rechanneling socially unacceptable drives or impulse into something that is socially acceptable Person who has quit smoking sucks on hard candy when the urge to smoke arises. song writers writing about their frustrations, anger UNDOING after thinking about being violent with someone, one would then be overly nice or accommodating to them to undo unacceptable behaviour into acceptable one A person who cheats on a spouse brings the spouse a bouquet of roses. SUSTITUTION Replacing the desired gratification with one that is more readily available Attaining a more attainable goal because the original goal is not attainable Woman who would like to have her own children opens a day care centre. RESISTANCE Overt or covert antagonism toward remembering or processing anxiety-producing information Nurse is too busy with tasks to spend time talking to a dying patient.