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NURS 222 Defense Mechanism Notes
- Course
- MENTAL HEALTH NURS 222
- Institution
- West Coast University
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Defense Mechanism PracticeAltruism Reaction Formation Intellectualization
Sublimation Undoing Conversion
Suppression/Dissociation Rationalization Splitting
Repression/Dissociation Denial Projection
Regression Compensation
Displacement Identification
- After losing the championship tennis match, a man boasts to all his friends that he is the best in the
league.
Reaction Formation
- A police officer was in an intense gun fight with several armed bank robbers. Afterwards, the officer
states he only remembered firing two bullets. In actuality, the officer fired 15 rounds, emptying his gun.
Repression
- After being bullied at school, a child physically and verbally abuses his teddy bear.
Displacement
- A person who dislikes her sister’s daughter offers to babysit so that her sister can go out of town.
Reaction Formaion
- After crashing his mom’s car, an adolescent washes the dishes and takes out the trash without
prompting.
Undoing
- After losing her wedding ring, a woman states that her husband should have bought her a bigger one
anyways.
Projection
- A professional boxer is terrified of his next opponent. On the day of their scheduled fight, the boxer
finds that his legs are paralyzed with no physiological cause.
Conversion
- An employee loves his boss who has always been fair and understanding. After being written up for
arriving late to work, the employee tells all his coworkers that the boss is rude and pathetic.
Splitting
- A mildly-overweight adolescent who is insecure about her weight, constantly orders her peers to go on
a diet.
Reaction Formation
- An adolescent who is physically unable to play contact sports excels in academic competitions.
Compensation
- A child who observes his father be abusive toward his mother becomes a bully at school.
Identification
- A person who learns he has a terminal illness focuses on creating a will and financial matters rather
than acknowledging his grief.
Intellectualization
- A long-standing alcoholic enrolls to be an Alcoholics Anonymous group leader.
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