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Defense Mechanisms
Key defense mechanisms used -- unconscious
Question | Answer |
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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 |