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Repression
Excluding emotionally painful or anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings from conscious awareness
Repression
When a person is exposed in an embarrassing situation, they tend to be very forgetful
Supression
Conscious, deliberate forcing of unpleasant anxiety-producing experience into the unconscious mind
Dissociation
The detachment of certain personal activities from normal consciousness which they function alone
Dissociation
Dealing with emotional conflict by a temporary alteration in consciousness or identity
Identification
The wish to be like another person and to assume the characteristics of that person
Identification
Modeling actions and opinions of influential others while searching for identity, or aspiring to reach a personal, social, or occupational goal
Introjection
Taking into one’s self a loved or hated person’s or eternal object’s, ideas, tastes, and wishes of the other person being introjected to become their own
Introjection
Accepting another person’s attitudes, beliefs, and values as one’s own
Projection
Unconsciously making another person or circumstances responsible for one’s unacceptable thoughts or actions
Denial
Escape the unpleasant realities of living by ignoring or refusing to acknowledge their existence
Fantasy
Living in the imagination becomes refuge from the realities of everyday living
Rationalization
Explains and justifies an individual’s ideas, actions and feeling in a plausible light to avoid guilt, responsibility, conflict, anxiety, or loss of self-respect
Compensation
Overachievement in one area to offset real or perceived deficiencies in another area; attempts to overcome some inability or inferiority
Reaction Formation
Keeping an undesirable impulse out of awareness by emphasizing the opposite
Reaction Formation
Acting the opposite of what one thinks or feels
Displacement
Transfer into another situation of an emotion felt in previous situation where it’s expression would not have been socially acceptable
Sublimation
Unused energy or impulses towards a socially approved situation; substituting a socially acceptable activity for an impulse that is unacceptable
Conversion
Expression of an emotional conflict through the development of a physical symptom, usually sensorimotor in nature
Condensation
Fusion of two or more ideas or experiences into one experience or manifestation
Symbolism
An idea or object is used to represent some other idea or object
Undoing
To eradicate or eliminate the existence of a previous painful experience; exhibiting acceptable behavior to make up for or negate unacceptable behavior
Regression
Backward turning to earlier patterns of behavior in solving personal conflicts
Intellectualization
The overuse of intellectual concepts and words to avoid affective experience or expression of feelings; acknowledging the facts but not the emotions
Substitution
Replacing the desired gratification with one that is more readily available
Fixation
Immobilization of a portion of the personality resulting from unsuccessful completion of tasks in a developmental stage
Repression
Woman has no memory of the mugging she suffered yesterday.
Repression
Woman has no memory before age 7, when she was removed from abusive parents.
Suppression
Student decides not to think about a parent’s illness to study for a test.
Suppression
Woman tells a friend she cannot think about her son’s death right now.
Dissociation
Amnesia that prevents recall of yesterday’s auto accident
Dissociation
Adult remembers nothing of childhood sexual abuse.
Identification
Nursing student becoming a critical care nurse because this is the specialty of an instructor she admires
Introjection
Person who dislikes guns becomes an avid hunter, just like a best friend.
Projection
Man who has thought about same-gender sexual relationship, but never had one, beats a man who is gay.
Projection
Person with many prejudices loudly identifies others as bigots
Denial
Spending money freely when broke
Denial
Waiting 3 days to seek help for severe abdominal pain
Rationalization
Student blames failure on teacher being mean.
Rationalization
Man says he beats his wife because she doesn’t listen to him.
Compensation
Nurse with low self-esteem working double shifts so her supervisor will like her
Reaction Formation
Woman who never wanted to have children becomes a supermom.
Reaction Formation
Person who despises the boss tells everyone what a great boss she is.
Displacement
Person who is mad at the boss yells at his or her spouse.
Displacement
Child who is harassed by a bully at school mistreats a younger sibling.
Sublimation
Person who has quit smoking sucks on hard candy when the urge to smoke arises.
Sublimation
Person goes for a 15-minute walk when tempted to eat junk food.
Regression
A 5-year-old asks for a bottle when new baby brother is being fed.
Regression
Man pouts like a 4-year-old if he is not the center of his girlfriend’s attention.
Intellectualization
Person shows no emotional expression when discussing serious car accident.
Subsitution
Woman who would like to have her own children opens a day care center.
Fixation
Never learning to delay gratification
Fixation
Lack of a clear sense of identity as an adult