Refusal to accept reality or fact; acting as if a painful event, thought or feeling did not exist.
Immature.
A return to an earlier period of development.
Immature
Expressing an unconscious wish through action to avoid becoming consciously aware of it.
Immature
Temporary but drastic modification of a person’s character or sense of identity to avoid distress. Often seen in people with h/o severe psychological trauma/abuse/neglect.
Diagnostically seen in Dissociative Identity Disorder (“Multiple personality disorder”) and Dissociative Amnesia (which can include fugue states). Immature
Lesser form of dissociation, wherein parts of oneself are separated from awareness of other parts and behaving as if one had separate sets of values.
Immature
Attributing your thoughts or feelings to someone else because they are uncomfortable, associated with Paranoid Personality Disorder.
Immature
Converting of unwanted or dangerous thoughts, feelings or impulses into their opposites.
Immature
Division or polarization of beliefs, actions, objects, or persons into good and bad by focusing selectively on their positive or negative attributes. Although not really exclusive.
Immature
Dealing with emotional conflict or internal or external stressors by excessive daydreaming as a substitute for human relationships or more effective action.
Having a fantasy of being important and loved despite no reality to either. Identified with schizoid personality d/o, not autism spectrum disorders. Immature
A tendency to experience and communicate psychological distress in the form of physical symptoms and to seek medical help for them.
Psychological trauma from childhood abuse is too difficult to think about so distress is channeled to more “appropriate” and less difficult to discuss sxs. Immature
Processes whereby the idealized aspects of the self are preserved, and its limitations denied.
People who talk about their college degree (or have t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc.), jobs, possessions, etc., may be trying to cover up feelings of inadequacy. Immature
Internalizing the qualities of another person. “Identification with the aggressor” or abused person believing they deserve abuse and abusers as mates
Immature
Unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts, feelings and impulses. Unconscious /less mature version of suppression
Immature
Redirecting of thoughts feelings and impulses directed at one person or object, but taken out upon another person or object.
Immature
Overemphasis on thinking (“using facts and logic”) when confronted with an unacceptable impulse, situation or behavior without employing any emotions
Obsessive-compulsive personality trait, so frequent with many of us. Similar to “isolation of affect”, where feelings are not connected to events. Immature
Offer rational explanations to justify thoughts ideas, feelings and behaviors that may otherwise be unacceptable.
Immature
Conscious postponing attention to a conscious impulse or conflict.
Mature
Achieving impulse gratification and retention of goals but altering a socially objectionable aim or object to a socially acceptable one.
Mature
Using constructive and instinctually gratifying service to others to undergo a vicarious experience.
Mature
Using comedy to overtly express feelings/thoughts without personal discomfort and without producing an unpleasant effect on others.
Mature
Psychologically counterbalancing perceived weaknesses by emphasizing strength in other arenas.
Mature
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