Phycometric

Phycometric

Acting out: exhibiting negative behaviors rather than using thoughts or emotions to deal with a situation
Avoidance: refusing to deal with troubling situations or experiences
Denial: refusing to acknowledge an aspect of reality that is evident to others
Displacement: transferring strong feelings from the situation in which they originated to a less threatening situation (e.g., expressing anger toward one’s dog rather than one’s supervisor)
Dissociation: Temporarily disconnecting from a situation via memory loss or loss of awareness
Help-rejecting complaining: constantly complaining and requesting help, which is then rejected when offered
Idealization: exaggerating the positive and ignoring the negative aspects of a person or situation
Identification: modeling oneself after another person in order to gain approval
Intellectualization: avoiding emotions by focusing on thoughts and abstractions
Isolation: disconnecting thoughts and emotions
Passive Aggression: expressing anger and hostility in direct ways (e.g., “accidentally” breaking a person’s heirloom vase)
Rationalization: justifying one’s choices in self-serving but invalid ways
Reaction formation: replacing unacceptable thoughts and emotions with their opposite to overcompensate
Regression: reverting to a lower developmental level in thoughts, emotions, and behavior dealing with them effectively
Resistance: blocking memories, insights, or avenues to positive change
Somatization: channeling conflicts into physical symptoms
Splitting: perceiving the self and others as either all good or all bad
Undoing: negating or invalidating unacceptable thoughts, emotions, or actions
Psychosocial Theory of Development: Oral(0-18), Anal(18-36mths), Phallic(3-5yrs), Latency(5-11yrs), Genital(11-Lifespan)
Super Ego-Conscious, Moral Judicial part of the psyche
Ego-Psyche, Reality Principle
ID-Unconscious, Pleasure Principle and irrational
Carl Jung 7/26/1875- 6/6/1961 (Analytical Psychology)The conscious...