NSG 121 Defense Mechanisms questions well answered 2024

NSG 121 Defense MechanismsRepression - correct answer The holding back or subduing; suppression; pushing painful ideas or memories of the subconscious. (in psychiatry) example of repression - correct answer A child who is abused by a parent later has no recollection of the events, but has trouble forming relationships. sublimation (defense mechanism) - correct answer channeling threatening devices into acceptable outlets (e.g. working out) sublet-->outlet Regression - correct answer psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated regression example - correct answer A little boy reverts to the oral comfort of thumb sucking in the car on the way to his first day of school when little brother gets bottle displacement (defense mechanism) - correct answer - The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or that is neutral. Displacement example - correct answer A client is angry at his doctor, does not express it, but becomes verbally abusive with the nurse. Projection - correct answer psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others projection example - correct answer the thief thinks everyone else is a thief