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Repression

Blocking out undesirable ideas, impulses, or memories

Displacement

Transferring your own emotional impulses towards one particular person or object on another person or object

Sublimation

Transferring one’s unacceptable emotions into pursuits or activities that they consider productive

Rationalization

Attempt at justifying one’s behavior through a rational explanation instead of acknowledging one’s true motives or desires

Projection

Attribution of one’s own urges or qualities to others

Reaction Formation

Thinking or behaving in a way that is the complete opposite of their urges or impulses

Denial

Failure to recognize the existence of painful realities

Undoing

Neutralizing or canceling out an unacceptable action or thought with a positive action or thought.

Regression

Returning to a previous behavior