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Defense Mech

Freud's Defense Mechanisms

QuestionAnswer
Repression Unconscious, involuntary forgetting of painful ideas, conflicts
Denial Unconscious refusal to admit unacceptable ideas, feelings, behaviors
Suppression Voluntary exclusion from awareness (of anxiety-producing feelings, thoughts)
Rationalization Attempts to prove that one's feelings or behaviors are justifiable
Intellectualization Using the logical explanations without feelings component
Identification Conscious or unconscious attempt to model oneself after someone else
Introjection Unconsciously incorporating wishes, values, attitudes of others as if they were your own
Compensation Covering up for a weakness by overemphasizing or making up a desirable trait
Reaction formation Conscious behavior that is the opposite of an unconscious feeling
Sublimation Channeling instinctual drives into acceptable activities
Displacement Discharging pentup feelings to a less threatening object (being)
Projection Blaming someone else for one's difficulties or placing one's unethical desires on someone else
Conversion Unconscious expression of intrapsychic conflict symbolically through physical symptoms
Undoing Doing something to counteract or make up for a wrong-doing
Dissociation Unconscious separation of painful feelings and emotions from an unacceptable idea, situation, or object
Regression Return to earlier and more comfortable developmental level
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