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CSU Freud Defense Mechanisms

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Displacement   Taking out impulses on a less threatening target   show
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Intellectualization   Avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects   show
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show Placing unacceptable impulses in yourself onto someone else   When losing an argument, a person feels stupid, and to cope with this, calls the other person "stupid."  
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Rationalization   Supplying a logical or rational reason as opposed to the real reason   show
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Reaction formation   show A person who is angry with a colleague actually ends up being particularly courteous and friendly towards them  
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Regression   Returning to a previous stage of development   show
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Repression   Pulling painful thoughts or memories into the unconscious   show
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Sublimation   show Channeling your aggressive impulses toward a career as a boxer; lifting weights to release 'pent up' energy  
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Suppression   show Making a point of not worrying about tomorrows test when playing reading your child a bedtime story  
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Somatization   show Developing a stomach ache before work on the first day of a new job  
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Altruism   show  
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Hypochondriasis   An excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness.   show
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show A form of isolation; concentrating on the intellectual components of a situation so as to distance oneself from the associated anxiety-provoking emotions; separation of emotion from ideas;    
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Humor   show  
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show Dealing with anxiety provoking information or situation by stating that it doesn't exist   insisting that your physician's diagnosis of cancer is incorrect and seeking a second opinion, then a third...  
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