Defence Mechanism

5. exaggerated negative qualities of self or another
9. one's disowned attitudes, wishes, feelings and urges to some external object or person
10. copying someone's personality
11. channel unwanted feelings into socially acceptable channels
13. "all good" or "all bad"
14. a person uses words or actions to symbolically reverse or negate unacceptable thoughts, feelings or actions (compulsions)
16. split mental functions in a manner that allows them o express forbidden or unconscious impulses
17. loved or hated external objects are symbolically absorbed within self
19. deterioration of exiting defenses
20. amnesia or symptomatic forgetting serving to banish unacceptable ideas
21. enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies
24. emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings
25. directing impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object
26. (two words) person adopts affects, ideas, attitudes or behaviors that are opposites of those they harbor consciously or unconsciously
27. giving believable explanation for irrational behavior

1. where the person avoids uncomfortable emotions by focusing on facts and logic
2. overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another
3. return to more infantile patterns of reacting or thinking. Can be in service to ego
4. behaving like the aggressor
6. psychic representation of a person is/are figuratively ingested
7. unconsciously perceiving others' behavior as a reflection of one's own identity
8. loss of motivation to engage in activity
12. unacceptable impulse, idea or act is separated from its original memory source
15. repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function
16. inability to acknowledge true significance of feelings
18. mental representation stands for some other thing, class of things or attribute
22. unattainable or unacceptable goal replaced by a more attainable or acceptable
23. deflect hostile aggression or other unacceptable impulses from another to self.