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11 Cards in this Set
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Denial |
Refusing to believe whatever it is that would cause anxiety. |
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Repression |
Preventing unacceptable thoughts or feelings from entering conscious awareness, therefor preventing anxiety. |
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Reaction-Formation |
Thinking, feeling or behaving in a manor which is opposite to how you really think, feel or behave. |
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Regression |
Going back to a younger, child-like, immature, way of behaving. |
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Projection |
Shifting our unwanted thoughts, feelings or personal shortcomings onto someone else. |
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Rationalisation |
Making up a socially acceptable explanation to justify unacceptable thoughts, feelings or behaviour. |
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Compensation |
Attempting to cover up a real or imagined weakness by emphasising something in which you excel. |
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Sublimation |
Channeling unacceptable thoughts, impulses or wishes in a socially acceptable way. |
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Intellectualisatiuon |
Ignoring emotions and feelings by talking about an emotionally painful event in a 'cold', unemotional way. |
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Fantasy |
Fulfilling unconscious wishes or impulses by imagining them in activities. |
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Displacement |
Directing an emotion away from the object or person that caused it to a substitute object or person that is less threatening. |
