psyc

Projection - Placing one’s own unacceptable thoughts onto others, as if the thoughts belonged to them and not to oneself 

Displacement - Expressing feelings that would be threatening if directed at the real target onto a less threatening substitute target

Denial - refusal to recognize or acknowledge a threatening situation 

Rationalization - Making up acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior 

Repression - Pushing threatening, or conflicting events or situations out of conscious memory 

Reaction Formation - Forming an emotional reaction or attitude that is the opposite of one’s threatening or unacceptable actual thoughts

Sublimation - Turning socially unacceptable urges into socially acceptable behavior