Defense Mechanisms, Unusual Coping Strategies Interpersonal Patterns

1. Defense Mechanisms, Unusual Coping Strategies& Interpersonal Patterns

2. Unusual Coping Strategies

3. Stockholm Syndrome The Stockholm syndrome is a psychological state in which the victims of a kidnapping, or persons detained against their free will ? prisoners ? develop a relationship with their captor(s). This solidarity can sometimes become a real complicity, with prisoners actually helping the captors to achieve their goals or to escape police.?? The expression originates from a bank robbery that took place here on August 23rd 1973, when four bank clerks where held hostage in the vault for five and a half days.

4. Jonestown http://youtube.com/watch?v=IY3cx3U0gYE 1970’s cult lead by Jim Jones Stockholm syndrome? A case of wanting to belong?

5. Stanford Prison Experiment http://youtube.com/watch?v=c4PrmqvYO94 People react severely even when the situation is pretend Why did this experiment go so wrong?

6. Defense Mechanisms When anxiety occurs, the mind first responds by an increase in problem-solving thinking, seeking rational ways of escaping the situation. If this is not fruitful, a range of defense mechanisms may be triggered. All Defense Mechanisms share two common properties 1-They often appear unconsciously 2-They tend to distort, transform, or otherwise falsify reality. In distorting reality, there is a change in perception which allows for a lessening of anxiety, with a corresponding reduction in felt tension.

7. Denial arguing against an anxiety provoking stimuli by stating it doesn't exist For example: denying that your physician's diagnosis of cancer is correct and seeking a second opinion

8. Displacement taking out impulses on a less threatening target For example: slamming a door instead of hitting a person, yelling at your spouse after an argument with your boss

9. Intellectualization avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects For example: focusing on the details of a funeral as opposed to the sadness and grief

10. Projection placing unacceptable impulses in yourself onto someone else when losing an argument, you state "You're just Stupid;" homophobia

11. Rationalization supplying a logical or rational reason as opposed to the real reason For example: stating that you were fired because you didn't kiss up the the boss, when the real reason was your poor performance

12. Reaction Formation taking the opposite belief because the true belief causes anxiety having a bias against a particular race or culture and then embracing that race or culture to the extreme

13. Repression pulling into the unconscious forgetting sexual abuse from your childhood due to the trauma and anxiety

14. Other Defense Mechanisms Regression Sublimation Supression

15. Common thought distortions in abusive relationships Denial that it is an abusive relationship Not seeing the pattern, justifying each incident as isolated Anger management?