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Freud's Defense Mechanisms

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