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Acting out
Immature defense |
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| Unacceptable feelings and thoughts are expressed through actions |
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Dissociation
Immature defense |
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| Temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress |
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| Avoidance of awareness of some painful reality |
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Displacement
Immature defense |
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| Process whereby avoided ideas and feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object |
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| Partially remaining at a more childish level of development |
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Identification
Immature defense |
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| Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful (though not necessarily admired) |
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Isolation (of affect)
Immature defense |
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| Separation of feelings from ideas and events |
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Projection
Immature defense |
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| An unacceptable internal impulse is attributed to an external source |
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Rationalization
Immature defense |
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| Proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame |
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Reaction formation
Immature defense |
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| Process whereby a warded-off idea or feeling is replaced by an (unconsciously derived) emphasis on its opposite |
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Regression
Immature defense |
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| Turning back the maturational clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world |
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Repression
Immature defense |
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| Involuntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness |
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Splitting
Immature defense |
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Belief that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity
Seen in borderline personality disorder |
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| Guilty feelings alleviated by unsolicited generosity toward others |
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| Appreciating the amusing nature of an anxiety-provoking or adverse situation |
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Sublimation
Mature defense |
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| Process whereby one replaces an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to the wish but does not conflict with one's value system |
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Suppression
Mature defense |
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| Voluntary withholding of an idea or feeling from conscious awareness |
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