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Mental Health

Defense Mechanisms

QuestionAnswer
An individual makes up for a deficiency in one area by excelling in or emphasizing another area Compensation
Emotional conflicts are turned into a physical symptom,which provides the individual with some sort of benefit Conversion
Reality is denied, it does not exist Denial
Emotions are expressed toward someone or something other than the actual source of the emotion Displacement
Separation and detachment of emotional significance and affect from an idea or situation Dissociation
Individual incorporates a characteristic of another individual or group Identification
A quality or attribute of another is internalized and becomes part of the individual Introjection
Blaming personal shortcomings on someone else Projection
A process of construction plausible reasons to explain and justify one's behavior Rationalization
The conscious behavior is completely opposite to the unconscious process Reaction Formation
Behavior,thoughts,or feelings used at an earlier stage of development are exhibited Regression
The unconscious process of barring from conscious thought of painful,disagreeable, thoughts,experiences,and or impulses Repression
The discharge of sexual or aggressive energy and impulses in a socially acceptable way Sublimation
An intentional exclusion of painful thoughts,experiences,or impulses suppression
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