The nurse interviews a patient who restricts food and is 25% underweight. The patient says, "I still need to lose weight. I'm not thin enough." The patient is using which defense mechanism?
a. Rationalization
b. Projection
c. Splitting
d. Denial
D
When the individual with anorexia nervosa insists that being 25% underweight is not a problem (and thinking that she is too fat, when in fact she is emaciated), the defense mechanism responsible is denial. Rationalization involves making excuses, projection involves blaming others, and splitting involves the inability to integrate good and bad in one concept.
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