anxiety disorders p1

Sublimation

Redirecting socially unacceptable drives, impulses, or desires into socially acceptable activities or behaviors.

Suppression

Voluntarily choosing to inhibit or push down unwanted or distressing thoughts, feelings, or impulses from one’s awareness.

Rationalization

Attempting to make socially acceptable excuse or seemingly logical explanation to justify unacceptable behavior, impulses, feelings and motives.

Intellectualization

Dealing with emotionally distressing or uncomfortable situations by excessively focusing on reasoning, logic, concepts, or intellectual aspects.

Undoing

Engaging in actions/behaviors to counteract or reverse the effects of a previous action or thought.

Displacement

Shifting an emotion, impulse, or desire from its original target to a substitute target.

Reaction formation

Unconsciously adopting attitudes, behaviors, or beliefs in an exaggerated manner that are contrary to their true feelings or impulses.

Repression

Involuntary exclusion of a painful or conflicted thought, impulse, or memory from awareness.

Regression

Retreating to an earlier stage of psychological/emotional development in response to stress.

Projection

Attributing one’s unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or impulses to others.

Denial

Refusing to acknowledge or accept the reality of a distressing situation, thought, or feeling