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| Voluntarily choosing not to think about a piece of bad news |
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| Indiana Jones using humor to express feelings of discomfort |
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| Arsonist donates money to the fire department |
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| Using one's aggression to succeed in business ventures |
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| Realistically planning for future inner discomfort |
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| Consciously postponing an inner conflict until after a big project is completed |
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| Redirecting impulses to a socially favorable object |
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| Not acknowledging a piece of bad news, as though it was never said |
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| Involuntary withholding of a feeling from conscience awareness |
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| A veteran that can describe horrific war details without any emotion |
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| A child abuser was himself abused as a child |
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| Man yells at his family when he has a bad day at work |
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| A closet homosexual hate homosexuals because of the way they "make" him feel |
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| Using intellectual processes to avoid affective expression |
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| Belief that people are either all good or all bad |
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| Expressing aggression through passivity, masochism, and turning against self |
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| Believing an external source is responsible for unacceptable inner impulse |
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| Changing ones character or personal identity to avoid emotional distress |
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| Returning to an earlier level of maturation to avoid the conflict at the current maturational level |
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| Offering an explanation for an unacceptable attitude/belief/behavior |
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| A though that is avoided is replaced by an unconscious emphasis on the opposite |
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| Converting mental conflicts into bodily symptoms |
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| Temporarily inhibiting thinking but continuing to build more tension |
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| Avoiding interpersonal intimacy to resolve conflict and obtain gratification |
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| Extreme forms can result in multiple personalities |
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| Chronically giving into an impulse to avoid tension from an unexpressed unconscious wish (tantrums) |
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| Excessive need to be taken care of, submissive, clinging behavior, low self-confidence, fears of separation and losing support |
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| Grandiosity, feels he is entitled to things, lack of empathy |
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| Suicide attempts (leads to 15% mortality), unstable mood and behavior, sense of emptiness and loneliness, impulsiveness |
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| Distrustful, suspicious, litigious |
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| Lifelong voluntary social withdrawal, no psychosis, emotional expression is limited |
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| Feelings of inadequacy, hypersensitive to rejection or criticism, socially inhibited |
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| Constant mood of unhappiness and pessimism |
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| Odd appearance, thoughts, and behavior, no psychosis, social awkwardness |
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| Controlling, perfectionistic, orderly, stubborn, indecisive |
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| Criminality, unable to conform to social norms, disregard for other's rights |
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| Excessively dramatic, emotional, and extroverted; sexually provocative behavior, unable to maintain intimate relationships |
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| What defense mechanism underlies all other defense mechanisms |
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