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Acting out

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings

Compensation

Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies. Example a person who stutters becomes expressive writer

Conversion

Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function , usually of the sensory , voluntary nervous system example pain deafness blindness

Decompensation

Deterioration of existing defenses

Devaluation

Frequently used by persons with borderline personality organization in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self

Dissociation

Process that enables a person to split mental functions in a manner that allows him or her to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for action

Displacement

Directing an Impulse wish or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object does permitting expression in a less threatening situation

Idealization

Over estimation of an admirer aspect or attribute of another

Identification

Universal mechanism whereby a person patterns himself or herself after a significant other

Defense mechanisms