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1. Compensation - extra effort in one area to offset real or imagined lack in another area
o Example: Short man becomes assertively verbal and excels in business.
2. Conversion - A mental conflict is expressed through physical symptoms
o Example: Woman becomes blind after seeing her husband with another woman.
3. Denial - treating obvious reality factors as though they do not exist because they are
consciously intolerable
o Example: Mother refuses to believe her child has been diagnosed with leukemia. "She
just has the flu."
4. Displacement - transferring unacceptable feelings aroused by one object to another, more
acceptable substitute
o Example: Adolescent lashes out at parents after not being invited to party.
5. Dissociation - walling off specific areas of the personality from consciousness
o Example: Adolescent talks about failing grades as if they belong to someone else; jokes
about them.
6. Fantasy - a conscious distortion of unconscious wishes and need to obtain satisfaction
o Example: A student nurse fails the critical care exam and daydreams about her heroic
role in a cardiac arrest.
7. Fixation - becoming stagnated in a level of emotional development in which one is
comfortable
o Example: A sixty year old man who dresses and acts as if he were still in the 1960's.
8. Identification - subconsciously attributing to oneself qualities of others
o Example: Elvis impersonators.
9. Intellectualization - use of thinking, ideas, or intellect to avoid emotions
o Example: Parent becomes extremely knowledgeable about child's diabetes.
10. Introjection - incorporating the traits of others
Erikson'
s
psychos
ocial
crisis
stages
Freudi
an
psycho
sexual
stages
life
stage / relationship
s / issues
basic virtue
and second
named
strength (p
otential
positive
outcomes
from each
crisis)
maladaptation
/ malignancy(p
otential
negative
outcome - one
or the other from unhelpful
experience
during each
crisis)
Oral
Hope and
Drive
Sensory
Distortion / With
drawal
2.
Autonom
yv
Shame &
Doubt
Anal
toddler / parents / bo
dily functions, toilet
training, muscular
control, walking
Willpower
and SelfControl
Impulsivity / Co
mpulsion
3.
Initiative
v Guilt
Phallic
preschool / family / e
xploration and
discovery, adventure
and play
Purpose and
Direction
Ruthlessness / I
nhibition
(syntoni
cv
dystonic
)
1. Trust
v
Mistrust
4.
Industry
v
Inferiorit
y
Latency
schoolchild / school,
teachers, friends,
neighbourhood / achi
evement and
accomplishment
Competence
and Method
Narrow
Virtuosity / Inert
ia
5.
Identity
v Role
Confusio
n
Puberty
and
Genitali
ty
adolescent / peers,
groups,
influences / resolving
identity and
direction, becoming a
grown-up
Fidelity and
Devotion
Fanaticism / Rep
udiation
6.
Intimacy
v
Isolation
(Genita
lity)
Love and
Affiliation
Promiscuity / Ex
clusivity
7.
Generati
vity v
Stagnati
on
n/a
mid-adult / children,
community / 'giving
back', helping,
contributing
Care and
Production
Overextension /
Rejectivity
8.
Integrity
v
Despair
n/a
examples
unrealistic,
spoilt,
deluded
reckless,
inconsiderat
e,
thoughtless
exploitative,
uncaring,
dispassionat
e
workaholic,
obsessive
specialist
selfimportant,
extremist
sexually
needy,
vulnerable
do-gooder,
busy-body,
meddling
conceited,
pompous,
arrogant
maladaptat
ion
Wisdom and
Renunciation
crisis
Presumption / Di
sdain
malignan
cy
examples
Withdrawal
neurotic,
depressive,
afraid
Impulsivity
Autonomy v
Shame/Doubt
Compulsion
anal,
constrained,
self-limiting
Ruthlessness
Initiative v Guilt
Inhibition
Narrow
Virtuosity
Industry v Inferiority
Inertia
Fanaticism
Identity v Role
Confusion
Repudiation
risk-averse,
unadventurous
lazy,
apathetic,
purposeless
socially
disconnected,
cut-of
loner, cold,
self-contained
Sensory
Distortion
Trust v Mistrust
Promiscuity
Intimacy v Isolation
Exclusivity
Overextension
Generativity v
Stagnation
Rejectivity
Presumption
Integrity v Despair
Disdain
disinterested,
cynical
miserable,
unfulfilled,
blaming