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6 Cards in this Set
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Regression |
- Retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated. Example- A little boy reverts to the oral comfort of thumb sucking in the car on the way to his first day of school. |
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Reaction formation |
- Switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites. Example- Repressing angry feelings, a person displays exaggerated friendliness. |
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Projection |
- Disguising one's own threatening impulses by attributing them to others. Example- "The thief thinks everyone else is a thief." (an El Salvadoran saying) |
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Rationalization |
- Offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions. Example- A habitual drinker says she drinks with her friends "just to be sociable." |
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Displacement |
- Shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person. Example- A little girl kicks the family dog after her mother sends her to her room. |
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Denial |
- Refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities. Example- A partner denies evidence of his loved one's affair. |
