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Actual self
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The self as it is at the moment, including all the person's actual strengths and weaknesses
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Aggressive types
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Neurotic individuals who protect themselves against feelings of insecurity by exploiting others to feel superior
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Arbitrary rightness
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A protective device in which people are convinced that they are invariably right in all their judgements
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Basic anxiety
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The painful psychological state in which a person feels isolate and helpless in a potentially hostile world
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Basic conflict
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Turmoil created within neuotics because the three major trends are incompatible with one another. As the person indiscriminately pursues the predominant trend and the fulfillment of the needs associated with it, he or she is unable to satisfy the needs associated with the 2 trends that are repressed.
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Blind spot
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Defense mechanism in which painful experiences are denied or inored because they are at variance with the idealized self
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Compartmentalization
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Defense mechanism by which neurotics alleviate tensions by seperating beliefs and actions within themselves
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Compliant types
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Neurotic individuals who cope with feelings of basic anxiety by seeking the approval and affection of others through excessive conformity
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Cynicism
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Defense mechanism in which the person claims to believe in nothing so that he or she cannot be hurt or disappointed by others
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Detatched types
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Neurotic individuals who protect themselves by continuous avoidance of others
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Elusiveness
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Defense mechanism whereby a person refuses to take a position on anything so that he or she can never be proven wrong and criticized or ridiculed by others
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Excessive self-control
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Defense mechanism whereby a person exercises will-power, consciously or unconsciously, to keep emotional impulses under control
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Externalization
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Defense mechanism whereby a person experiences inner emotions externally and blames others for her/her own weaknesses and failings
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Female masochism
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For Freud, a perversion in which women experience a blending of pleasure and pain during certain activities and fantasies. He believed that male masochism occured only in men with feminine natures
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Humanistic view of development
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An optimistic view of development that sees each person as having intrinsic and unique potential for constructive growth
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