| A | B |
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| Axis IV | Global assessment of functioning |
| Axis I | Schizophrenia |
| Axis III | CHF, COPD, Type II DM |
| Axis II | Personality Disorders, Mental Retardation |
| Compensation-Definition | Covering up for real or imagined inadequacies and weakness by emphasizing desirable traits or making up for frustration in one area by over-gratification in or exaggerating another |
| Axis IV | Divorced, Unemployed, Wealthy |
| Compensation-Example | A physically unattractive adolescent becomes an expert dancer |
| Conversion Definition | A woman develops a headache on the eve that she is to present a paper at a conference and then cannot present it |
| Defense Mechanisms | Any thought or action used to decrease stress |
| Denial Definition | Arguing against an anxiety provoking stimuli by stating it does not exist. Rejection of things, events or feelings as they actually are, thus eliminating the need for anxiety |
| Denial Example | A person having an extramarital affair gives no thought to the possibility of pregnancy. |
| Displacement Definition | Taking out impulses on a less threatening target. |
| Displacement Example | Slamming a door instead of hitting a person or yelling at your spouse after an argument with your boss |
| Dissociation Example | A man has forgotten details of the accident in which his son was killed |
| Fantasy Example | Children using pets as children in play to work thru situations they will encounter as an adult |
| Identification Definition | Increasing feelings of worth by identifying self with person or institution of illustrious (well-known or famous) standing; takes on the characteristics and values of someone he admires |
| Identification Example | A school girl wants her mother to buy her the same kind of shoes her classmates are wearing |
| Intellectualization Definition | Avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects |
| Intellectualization Example | Focusing on the details of a funeral as opposed to the sadness and grief |
| Introjection Definition | Incorporating and internalizing conflicting values, ideas, etc. so that they are no longer an external threat |
| Projection Definition | Placing blame for difficulties upon others or attributing one's own unethical desires to others. |
| Projection Example | An obese woman blames her 2-year-old son for her obesity, stating “He makes her nervous” |
| Rationalization Definition | Supplying a logical or rational reason or logical sounding excuses as opposed to the real reason to conceal the real reason for the action, thought of feeling |
| Rationalization Example | Stating that you were fired because you didn't kiss up the boss, when the real reason was your poor performance |
| Reaction Formation Example | A married woman who is disturbed by feeling attracted to one of her husband's friends treats him rudely. Having a bias against a particular race or culture and then embracing that race or culture to the extreme |
| Reaction Formation Definition | Preventing dangerous desires from being expressed by adopting exaggerated opposite attitudes and types of behavior and using them as 'barriers' because the true belief causes anxiety |
| Regression Definition | A retreat to an earlier, less stressful time of development involving less mature responses |
| Regression Example | Throwing a temper tantrum when you don't get your way. |
| Repression Example | Forgetting sexual abuse from your childhood due to the trauma and humiliation |
| Repression-Definition | Preventing painful or dangerous thoughts from entering consciousness. |
| Sublimation Definition | Substituting acceptable behavior or an unacceptable or unattainable desire |
| Suppression Example | A woman with a growth on her groin ignores it until she can no longer sit down or I’ll think about that tomorrow |
| Suppression Definition | Protecting self from unpleasant reality that causes anxiety by refusal to perceive, postpone, face or forgetting it |
| Undoing Definition | An attempt to conceal a negative action by other positive action |
