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| Used to make up for perceived deficiencies and cover up shortcomings related to these deficiencies to protect the conscious mind form recognizing them. |
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| Unconscious transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom with no organic cause. Often the symptom functions to gain attention or as an excuse. |
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| Involves escaping unpleasant, anxiety causing thoughts, feelings, wishes, or needs by ignoring their existence. |
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| The transference of emotions associated with a particular person, object, or situation to another nonthreatening person, object, or situation. |
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| A disruption in the usually integrated funcitons of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment. It may result in a separation between feeling and thought. |
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| Attributing to oneself the characteristics of another person or group. Consciously or unconsciously |
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| Process in which events are analyzed based on remote, cold facts and without passion, rather than incorporating feeling and emotion in the processing |
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| The process by which the outside world is incorporated or absorbed into a person's view of the self. |
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| The unconscious rejection of emotionally unacceptable features and attributing them to other people, objects, or situations. "What you say is what you are" |
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| Justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas, actions, or feelings by developing acceptable explanations that satisfy the teller as well as the listener |
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| Unacceptable feelings or behaviors are controlled and kept out of awareness by developing the opposite behavior or emotion |
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| Reverting to an earlier more primitive and childlike pattern of behavior that may or may not have been previously exhibited. |
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| First line psychological defense against anxiety. it is the temporary or long term exclusion of unpleasant or unwanted experiences, emotion, or ideas from conscious awareness. On an unconscious level |
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| inability to integrate the positive and negative qualities of oneself or others into a cohesive image. |
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| Unconscious process of substitution mature, constructive, and socially acceptable activity for immature, destructive, and unacceptable impulses. |
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| Conscious denial of a disturbing situation or feeling. |
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| Most commonly seen in children. When a person makes up for an act or communication. |
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