Defense Mechanisms

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Repression: Forgetting the details of a really bad car accident.

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Painful feelings are conscious initially and then forgotten, but return occasionally. Repression can range from momentary memory loss.

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Denial :A child who is told that her parents are divorcing may deny that it is happening or deny that she is upset about it

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Unpleasant reality is ignored, and realistic interpretation of potentials threatening events are replaced by benign but inaccurate ones.

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Suppression: fears can be replaced by thinking of a happy place, time, or event

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Is considered one of the more mature and healthy defense mechanisms

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Projection : an angry person believes that another person is angry at him or her ; a person who is critical of others believes they are critical of him/her.

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The undesirable feelings are attributed to another person or persons

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Displacement: involves taking out our frustrations, feelings and impulses on people or objects that are less threatened.

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Object displacement, anger or another emotion is initially felt toward a person against who, it is unsafe to express it

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Reaction formation: treating someone you strongly dislike in an excessively friendly manner in order to hide true feelings

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Involves behavior that is dramatically opposed to the impulses or feelings that one is repressing.

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Regression

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When confronted by stressful events, people sometimes abandon coping strategies and revert to patterns of behavior used earlier in development

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Fixation

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People with an oral fixation have problems with drinking, smoking, and nail biting when they are expressing stressful events

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Identification

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Taking on characteristics of someone important, pretty, sports, celebrity’s

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Rationalization

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An attempt to deny ones true motives by using a reason that is more logical or socially acceptable than ones own reasons

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Isolation

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Involves compartmentalism get ones experience so that an event becomes separated from the feelings that associated with it,

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Sublimation

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Involves rechanneling the energy connected with an unacceptable impulse into one the is more socially acceptable

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Compensation

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Devoting unusual efforts to achievement in Oder to overcome feelings of inferiority