NUR 172 Mental Health
Projection - answer A person unconsciously rejects emotion unacceptable features and
attributes them to other person, objects, or situations
Rationalization - answer Justifying illogical or unreason, ideas, actions or feelings by
developing acceptable explanation.
Regression - answer Allows patient to return to an earlier more comforting, although
less mature way of behaving
Intellectualization - answer Excessive use of abstract thinking or generalizations to
decrease painful thinking
Denial - answer Refusal to admit a painful reality, which is treated as if is does not exist
Displacement - answer Transferring a feeling about, or a response to, one object onto
another (usually less threatening)
Dissociation - answer Experiencing a breakdown in the usually integrated functions of
consciousness, memory, perception of self or the environment or sensory or motor bx
Sublimation - answerChanneling potentially maladpative feeling or impulses into socially
acceptable bx
Reaction formation - answerSubstituting bx, thoughts, or feelings
Splitting - answerCompartmentalizing opposite affect states and failing to integrate the
positive and negative qualities
Which drug is used for bulimia? - answerFluoxetine (Prozac)
What drug treats neuoropathy pain & depression? - answerDuloxetine (cymbalta)
Which herb must you avoid on SSRIs? - answerSt John's wart
Which drug causes sedation and cardiac symptoms? - answerTCA
Projection - answer A person unconsciously rejects emotion unacceptable features and
attributes them to other person, objects, or situations
Rationalization - answer Justifying illogical or unreason, ideas, actions or feelings by
developing acceptable explanation.
Regression - answer Allows patient to return to an earlier more comforting, although
less mature way of behaving
Intellectualization - answer Excessive use of abstract thinking or generalizations to
decrease painful thinking
Denial - answer Refusal to admit a painful reality, which is treated as if is does not exist
Displacement - answer Transferring a feeling about, or a response to, one object onto
another (usually less threatening)
Dissociation - answer Experiencing a breakdown in the usually integrated functions of
consciousness, memory, perception of self or the environment or sensory or motor bx
Sublimation - answerChanneling potentially maladpative feeling or impulses into socially
acceptable bx
Reaction formation - answerSubstituting bx, thoughts, or feelings
Splitting - answerCompartmentalizing opposite affect states and failing to integrate the
positive and negative qualities
Which drug is used for bulimia? - answerFluoxetine (Prozac)
What drug treats neuoropathy pain & depression? - answerDuloxetine (cymbalta)
Which herb must you avoid on SSRIs? - answerSt John's wart
Which drug causes sedation and cardiac symptoms? - answerTCA
