Greg Goodbody goes to get his medical test results from his physician, and tragi

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Greg Goodbody goes to get his medical test results from his physician, and tragically is told that he has Stage 4 cancer, with only a few months to live. Greg refuses to believe this devastating news, telling himself there's been some mistake, perhaps a mix up of his results with someone else's. In spite of his physician triple-checking and confirming the grim diagnosis, Greg refuses to believe it.

Greg is engaging in what psychological defense mechanism?

Harry Hardo begins to date a new girl, Debbie Drama. Everything goes well for the first week or so, but then Harry begins to notice that Debbie is very emotionally unstable; one minute, she's professing her undying love for him, while in almost the next breath, she becomes verbally abusive, saying she hates him and questions his sexuality.

After one particularly hostile argument, Debbie is in the bathroom for a very long time before Harry checks on her, and he finds that she has cut her wrists with a razor blade, significantly but not fatally.

Debbie likely suffers from what psychological disorder?

According to Freud, females reconcile their p-e-n-i-s envy by marrying and giving birth to a son.

Sammy Scumbag is arrested for the murder of Polly Purebread, who was found raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in Faxon Park. Sammy left copious amounts of DNA at the scene that's a perfect match for his, multiple witnesses place him at the crime scene at the time of the murder, and Sammy even managed to leave his wallet, containing his driver's license, at the crime scene, covered in the victim's blood.

Sammy plans on pleading not guilty by reason of insanity, and begins to adopt a second identity, "Mike", who says that he did the killing. "Mike" is openly boastful about the crime, telling the psychologist "I killed the bitch, and I'm glad", while Sammy pleads ignorance to any knowledge of the crime. "Mike" only seems to come out when the psychologist is there.

What psychological disorder is Sammy/Mike attempting to portray?

Explanation / Answer

1. answer:

Denial

Justification:

2. Answer

Borderline personality disorder

Justification:

3. Answer:

True

Justification:

4. Answer:

Justification:

Dissociative identity disorder

• Denial is simply refusing to acknowledge that an event has occurred. The person affected simply acts as if nothing has happened, behaving in ways that others may see as bizarre. It is totally subconscious, and sufferers may be as mystified by the behavior of people around them as those people are by the behavior of the sufferers. It may also have a significant conscious element, where the sufferer is simply 'turning a blind eye' to an uncomfortable situation.

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