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exclusion of unpleasant or unwanted experiences, emotions or ideas from conscious awareness.
-forgetting ex-husband's name
-first line of defense against anxiety |
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transfer of emotions associated with a particular person, object or situation to another person, object or situation.
-boss yells at man, man yells at wife
-domestic abuse usually displacement |
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unacceptable feelings or behaviors are kept out of awareness by developing the opposite behavior or emotion.
-man hostile toward children becomes Boy Scout leader. |
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transforming anxiety on an unconscious level into a physical symptom.
-professor develops laryngitis on the day he has to defend a research proposal |
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an action or behavior that makes up for an act or communication
-giving a gift to undo an argument
-OCD - hand washing |
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justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas, actions or feelings by developing acceptable explanations that satisfy the teller as well as the listener.
-"everybody cheats, so why shouldn't I?" |
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| aggression expressed through procrastination, failure, inefficiency, passivity and illness that affect others more than oneself. |
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an individual deals with emotional conflicts or stressors by actions rather than reflections or feelings.
-verbally/physically lashing out to distract oneself from threatening thoughts or feelings. |
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disruption in usual integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity or perception of the environment.
-dissociative amnesia |
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| emotional conflicts or stressors are dealt with by attributing negative qualities to self or others. In case of others, the individual then looks good in comparison. |
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emotional conflicts or stressors are dealt with by attributing exaggerated positive qualities to others.
-Kids idealizing parents (good in order to build self-esteem)
-Borderline personality |
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inability to integrate positive and negative qualities of oneself or others into a cohesive image.
-Borderline personality - used to reverse idealization of a person. |
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unconsciously rejecting emotionally unacceptable personal features and attributes them to other people, objects or situations.
-scapegoating
-schizophrenic paranoia |
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escaping unpleasant realities by ignoring their existence.
-alcoholics
-psychotic denial - gross impairment in reality testing - schizophrenia |
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emotional conflicts or stressors are dealt with by meeting the needs of others.
-becoming a grief counselor after losing a loved one. |
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unconscious process of substituting constructive and socially acceptable activity for strong impulses that are not.
-strong hostile feelings channeled into butcher shop.
-asexual person channels energy into painting. |
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| emphasizing the amusing or ironic aspects of a conflict or stressor. |
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conscious denial of a disturbing situation or feeling
-"I can't worry about my rent until after my exam." |
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