Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

Denial

Answer 1

Failing to recognize the existence of situation or feeling

Question 2

Displacement

Answer 2

Transfer of feeling from one target to another

Question 3

Identification

Answer 3

Emulate personality/traits/behaviors of another person you admire

Question 4

Intellectualization

Answer 4

Using reason to avoid emotional conflicts

Question 5

Introjection

Answer 5

Incorporate value/qualities of admired person into own ego structure

Question 6

Isolation

Answer 6

Separate unacceptable feelings, Ideas, impulses from your own thought process

Question 7

Passive – aggression

Answer 7

Indirectly expressing aggression

Question 8

Projection

Answer 8

Attributing feelings/thoughts on to another person

Question 9

Rationalization

Answer 9

Offer excepted bowl, logical explanation to unacceptable feelings or behavior

Question 10

Reaction formation

Answer 10

Development of conscious attitudes/BX that are opposite of what is really felt

Question 11

Regression

Answer 11

Reverting to earlier level of development

Question 12

Repression

Answer 12

Involuntary exclusion of painful thought/Memory

Question 13

Sublimation

Answer 13

Substitution of unacceptable feelings by more socially acceptable one

Question 14

Suppression

Answer 14

Intentional exclusion of feelings and ideas

Question 15

Undoing

Answer 15

Communication/BX done to negate previously unacceptable act

Question 16

Compensation

Answer 16

Cover up weakness but emphasizing desirable trait