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Ego Defense Mechanisms

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A physically handicapped boy is unable to participate in football so he compensates by becoming a great scholar   Compensation  
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A woman drinks alcohol every day and cannot stop   Denial  
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Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one considers more desirable   Compensation  
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Refusing to acknolwdge the existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it   Denial  
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A client is angry at his doctor, does not express it, but becomes verbally abusive with the nurse   Displacement  
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The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is conisdered less threatening or that is neutral   Displacement  
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A teengaged boy who required lengthy rehabilitation after an accident decides to become a physical therapist as a result of his experiences   Identification  
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Susan's husband is being transferred with his job to a city far away from her parents. She hides anxiety by explaining to her parents the advantages associated with the move   Intelleculization  
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Children integrate their parents' value sysmtem into the process of conscience formation A child says to friend, "Don't cheat, It's wrong"   Introjection  
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Without showing any emotion, a young woman describes being attacked and raped   Isolation  
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Sue feels a strong sexual attraction to her track coach and tells her friend, "He's coming on to me!"   Projection  
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Attriburing feelings or impulses unacceptable to one's self to another person   Projection  
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John tells the rehab nurse, " I drink because it's the only way I can deal with my bad marriage and my worse job"   Rationalization  
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Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors   Rationalization  
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Jane hates nursing. She attended nursing school to please her parents. During career day, she speaks to prospective students about the excellence of nursing as a career   Reaction Formation  
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Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors   Reaction Formation  
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When a 2-year old Jay is hospitalized for tonsillitis he will drink only from a bottle, although his mother states he has been drinking from a cup for 6 months   Regression  
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An accident victim can rember nothing about the accident   Repression  
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Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness   Repression  
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A mother whose son was killed by a drunk driver channels her anger and energy into being the president of the local chapter of Motherss Against Drunk Drivers   Sublimation  
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Scarlett says, " I don't want to think about that now. I'll think about that tomorrow."   Suppression  
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The voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness.   Suppression  
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Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are personally or socially unacceptable into activities that are constructive   Sublimation  
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Joe is nervous about his new job and yells at his wife. On his way home, he stops and buys her some flowers   Undoing  
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Symbolically negating or canceling out an experience that one finds intolerable   Undoing  
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