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Defense Mechanisms

Key defense mechanisms used -- unconscious

QuestionAnswer
Denial avoidance of disagreeable reality by ignoring or refusing to recognize it
Rationalization offering a socially acceptable or logical explanation for otherwise unacceptable impulses, feelings, and behaviors
Displacement transferring painful feelings to a neutral object
Projection attributing own thoughts or impulses to another person
Compensation putting forth extra effort to achieve in areas of real or imagined deficiency
Reaction formation displaying overt behavior or attitudes in precisely the opposite direction of unacceptable conscious or unconscious impulses
Identification unconsciously adopting the characteristics of another, generally someone who possesses attributes that are admired or envied
Sublimation directing energy from unacceptable drives into socially acceptable behavior
Regression going back to an early level of emotional development
Undoing a compulsive response negating or reversing a previous unacceptable act
Introjection incorporating the traits of others
Isolation splitting-off response in which person blocks feeling associated with unpleasant experience
Splitting viewing people as all good or all bad, failure to integrate positive and negative qualities
Repression unconscious, involutary forgetting of unacceptable or painful thoughts, impulses, feelings, or actions
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