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When one simply refuses to see what is obvious to everyone else. It is escaping unpleasant realities by ignoring their existence.
Example: Alcoholic: "I'm a social drinker. I can stop anytime I want to." |
Denial
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A conscious, voluntary, deliberate forgetting of unacceptable painful thoughts, impulses, feelings or acts.
Example: Scarlett O'Hara dealing with her problems another day, for tomorrow is another day. |
Suppression
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An involuntary exclusion of a painful thought, impulse or memory locked away in our unconscious mind.
Example: A child who witnesses a crime may not remember it until he's an adult. |
Repression
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Retreating to an earlier stage of development.
Example: Crying |
Regression
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Attributing one's thoughts or impulses to another. A blaming mechanism.
Example: Us blaming Mrs. Campbell for putting questions on the test we never covered in lecture ;) |
Projection
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Transfers an emotional feeling from on person or object to another.
Example: Kicking the dog after getting fired from your job and liking it. |
Displacement
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Patterning oneself to be like another in an attempt to change oneself to resemble an admired person.
Example: Tweenie boppers dressing up like Hannah Montana |
Identification
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An attempt to make unacceptable feelings or behavior acceptable. An excuse.
Example: Josh drinks 8 Killian's in 2 hours and whines as he's bent over the toilet that the Irish told him to do it. |
Rationalization
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Changes anxiety from an intrapsychic conflict to a somatic (physical) symptom or complaint.
Example: If you have a stressful day, you might develop a headache |
Conversion
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The development of conscious attitudes and behaviors opposite to those one really feels or would like to do.
Example: A male professor wants to do his hot student, but instead he tells the class openly about her running a train the night before. |
Reaction-Formation
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A process in which a person makes up for his/her perceived or actual deficiency.
Example: Dude didn't make the football team, but won the national spelling bee. |
Compensation
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The replacement of an unacceptable need, attitude, or emotion with one that is more acceptable.
Example: A surgeon turns aggressive energies and deep desires to cut people into life-saving acts. |
Sublimation
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Intense identification with or incorporating the values of another person into self.
Example: I have to give a presentation but feel scared. I put on the hat of Abraham Lincoln and imagine I am confidently giving an important address to the nation. |
Introjection
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The use of excessive reasoning to avoid feelings.
Example: A woman who has been raped seeks out information on other cases and the psychology of rapists and victims. She takes self-defense classes in order to feel better (rather than more directly addressing the psychological and emotional issues). |
Intellectualization
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Substitution of a more pleasant, satisfying or rewarding situation for a real one. (Daydreaming)
Example: Being in class during lecture wishing you were in bed sleeping. |
Fantasy
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Where personality development is arrested in one or more aspects at a level short of maturity.
Example: High school cheerleader continues acting like she did in high school because that's when she got the most recognition for her efforts |
Fixation
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The unconscious replacement of a desirable, but impossible object with an emotionally and physically obtainable one
Example: A girl is attracted to her brother. Knowing this can never be, she dates men who are similar to her brother. |
Substitution
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