Ego Defense Mechanism
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katherinbz on February 13, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 COMPENSATION | Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one considers more desirable. |
| DENIAL | Refusing to acknowledge the existence of a real situation or the feeling associated with it. |
| DISPLACEMENT | The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or that is neutral. |
| IDENTIFICATION | An attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring certain attributes and characteristics of an individual one admires. |
| INTELLECTUALIZATION | An attempt to avoid expressing actual emotion associated with a stressfull situation by using the intellectual processes of logic, reasoning, and analysis |
| INTROJECTION | Integrating the beliefs and values of another individual into one's own ego structure. |
| ISOLATION | Separating a thought or memory from the feeling, tone, or emotion associated with it. |
| PROJECTION | Attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable to one's self to another person. |
| RATIONALIZATION | Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behavior. |
| REACTION FORMATION | Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors. |
| REGRESSION | Retreating in response to stress to an earlier level of development and the comfort measures associated with that level of functioning. |
| REPRESSION | Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness. |
| SUBLIMATION | Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are personally or socially unacceptable into activities that are constructive. |
| SUPPRESSION | The voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness |
| UNDOING | Symbolically negating or cancelling out an experience that one finds intolerable. |
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