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Defense Mechanism
Test one
| Example | Mechanism |
|---|---|
| A girl who thinks she cannot sing studies to become an expert pianist | Compensation |
| A boy who injured an animal by kicking it develops a painful limp | Conversion |
| A child covered with chocolate refuses to admit eating candy | Denial |
| A husband shouts to his wife; the wife then berates her child; the child then scolds the dog | Displacement |
| A teen casually describes the auto accident in which he lost his legs | Dissociation |
| A teenager doing poorly in school daydreams about owning a private jet | Fantasy |
| Adolescents dress and behave like the members of a popular singing group | Identification |
| A wife describes the details of nurses' unsuccessful attempts to prevent the death of her husband | Intellectualization |
| A solider humorously describes how he was seriously wounded in combat | Isolation |
| A woman is afraid to leave her house because she knows people will ridicule her | Projection |
| A student justifies failing an examination by saying that there was too much material to cover | Rationalization |
| A young man with homosexual feelings, which he finds to be threatening, engages in excessive heterosexual activity | Reaction Formation |
| A 4-year old boy whose parents are going through a divorce starts to suck his thumb and wet his pants | Regression |
| A man argues with his wife and then buys her roses | Restitution |
| A hostile young man who enjoys fighting becomes a football player | Sublimation |
| A man who is attracted to pornography campaigns to ban adult bookstores in his community | Substitution |
| A woman with a family history of breast cancer "forgets" her appointment for a mammogram | Suppression |
| A girl who feels insignificant draws a picture of her family which she is the smallest character | Symbolization |
| A man physically abuses his wife and then cleans her wounds and nurses her back to health | Undoing |
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