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| the ego threatening impulses, ideas and acts in to the unconscious; keeping unwanted thoughts and feelings entirely out of awareness |
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| repressing an unacceptable impulse and preplacing it with the opposite, such as replacing love with hate; replacing an unwanted unconscious impulse with its opposite in conscious behavior |
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| attributing unacceptable characteristics of the self to another person: attribution unacceptable thoughts and feelings onto others |
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| the product of feeling trapped and powerlessness; consciously experiencing an emotion in a "safe" context rather than the threatening context in which it was first unconsciously experienced |
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| nullifying an undesired impulse with an act of reparation; reverse |
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| adopting behaviors from an earlier period of development; resuming behaviors associated with an earlier developmental stage or level of functioning in order to avoid present anxiety; the behavior may or may not help resolve anxiety |
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| taking characteristics of another person in to the self in order to avoid a direct expression of emotions; the emotions originally felt about the other person are now felt toward the self |
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| similar to undoing; alteration of feelings, attitude, trait, relation, or direction into it's opposite |
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| a form of displacement that is a normal adjustment process and does not lead to repression;diverting sexual impulses to acceptable outlets; converting an impulse from socially unacceptable aim to a socially acceptable one |
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| avoiding unacceptable emotions by thinking or talking about them rather than experiencing them directly |
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| superficial but rational explanations that are used to justify unacceptable behavior and maintain self-esteem; using unconvincing reasons to justify ideas, feelings or actions so as to avoid recognizing true motives |
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| transferring feelings and behaviors to a substitute outlet; shifting feelings about one person or situation onto another |
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| a refusal to believe or perceive reality; negating an important aspect of reality that one may actually pereive |
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| converting intolerable impulses into somatic symptoms |
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| overvaluing of another person,place, family, or activity beyond what is realistic |
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| making up for what one percieves as a deficit |
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| alleviation of unacceptable feelings by performing self-sacrificing service to others or participation in causes |
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| borderline contradiction; splitting emotion; involves keeping two contradictory ego states recognition of defense mechanism. |
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