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Mental Health
Defense Mechanisms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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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