Defense Mech Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| 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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