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Defense mechanisms
Coping skills
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Nursing
Undergraduate 1
09/26/2013

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Denial
Definition
Failure to acknowledge an intolerable thought,feeling,experience,reality
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Displacement
Definition
Redirection of feelings to subject that acceptable or less threatening
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Projection
Definition
Attribution to others of one's own unacceptable thoughts,feelings,qualities
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Undoing
Definition
An attempt to erase an unacceptable act or thought
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Compensation
Definition
An attempt to overcome a real or imagined shortcoming
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Symbolization
Definition
A less threatening object or idea is used to represent another
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Substitution
Definition
Replacing desired,impractical,or unobtainable object with one that is attainable
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Introjection
Definition
Characteristics of another incorporated into oneself
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Repression
Definition
Unacceptable thoughts kept from awareness
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Reaction formation
Definition
Expressing attitude directly opposite to unconscious one
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Regression
Definition
Returning to an earlier stage of development
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Dissociation
Definition
Detachment of painful emotional experience from consciousness
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Rationalization
Definition
Attempts to justify,via logical or acceptable explanations, acts or feelings that are not logical or acceptable
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Idealization
Definition
Glorifying another's characteristics
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Identification
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Incorporating certain attributes of another into one's own thoughts or behavior
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