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unacceptable feelings and thoughts are expressed through actions
tantrums |
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| temporary, drastic changes in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress |
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avoidance of awareness of some painfull reality
Commonly seen in AIDS and cancer patients |
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process whereby avoided ideas and feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object
Mom taking anger at husband out on neutral kids |
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| partially remaining at a more childish level of development |
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modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (though not necessarily admired)
abused child become abuser |
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| separation of feelings from ideas and events |
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an unacceptable internal impulse is attributed to an external source
a man who wants another woman thinks his wife is cheating on him |
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| proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame |
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| process whereby a warded-off idea or feeling is replaced by an (unconsciously derived) emphasis on its opposite |
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turning back the maturational clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world
kids under stress can start bedwetting again
dialysis patients crying |
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| involuntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness |
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belief that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity
common in borderline personality d/o |
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| guilty feelings alleviated by unsolicited generosity toward others |
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| appreciating the amusing nature of an anxiety-provoking or adverse situation |
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| process whereby one replaces an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to the wish but does not conflict with one's value system |
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| voluntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness |
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| sublimation, altruism, suppression, humor |
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