PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Neurosis, Reaction Formation, Psy
1 Dec 2020
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Tcc: wilkinson another individual or object experience that is apparent to others discomfort onto another, usually less-threatening, object or person. Defense mechanisms unconscious protective processes that keep primitive emotions associated with conflicts in check so that the ego can continue its coordinating function. Denial refusing to acknowledge some aspect of objective reality or subjective. Displacement transfers a feeling about, or a response to, an object that causes. Projection falsely attributes own unacceptable feelings, impulses, or thought to. Rationalization concealing the true motivations for actions, thoughts, or. Reaction formation substitutes behavior, thoughts, or feelings that are the. Repression blocks disturbing wishes, thoughts, or experiences from conscious. Sublimation directs potentially maladaptive feelings or impulses into socially. Ego psychology the individual slowly accumulates adaptational capacities, skill in feelings through elaborate reassuring or self-serving but incorrect explanations direct opposite of unacceptable ones awareness acceptable behavior reality testing, and defenses.
