PSYC 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter Additional Readings: Reaction Formation, Existentialism, Intellectualization
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The Walking Dead and Defense Mechanisms
1.) Ego Defense Mechanisms: Relieve stress, anxiety, emotional conflicts
a. Healthy mature defenses
1. Anticipation: Foreseeing and planning
2. Affiliation: Forming relationships with others
3. Sublimate: Direct unacceptable mental energy into something creative
4. Humor
5. Altruism
6. Forgiveness
b. Neurotic defenses
1. Displacement: Act out on an impulse on a “safer target”
2. Rationalization
3. Reaction formation: Act out an impulse on a safer target
4. Intellectualization
5. Isolation: Separate feelings from idea or event
6. Withdrawal
7. Dissociation
c. Immature defenses
1. Regression: Reverting back to old habits
2. Passive Aggression
3. Infantile fantasy
4. Projection
d. Pathological defenses
1. Denial
2. Splitting: Dichotomize everything into all or nothing categories
The Walking Dead and Existentialism
1.) Focuses on existence
a. All human beings have free will and must use it to find meaning in our lives
b. By being consciously aware of death, thinking about and acknowledging it, people
simultaneously become more conscious of life
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