Defense Mechanisms

3. Substituting a socially acceptable activity for an impulse that is unacceptable
6. Accepting another person’s attitudes, beliefs, and values as one’s own
7. Overt or covert antagonism toward remembering or processing anxiety-producing information
9. Uses defense mechanisms
10. Acting the opposite of what one thinks or feels
13. Excusing own behavior to avoid guilt, responsibility, conflict, anxiety, or loss of self-respect
15. in a developmental stage
16. Unconscious blaming of unacceptable inclinations or thoughts on an external object
17. Modeling actions and opinions of influential others while searching for identity, or aspiring to
18. Failure to acknowledge an unbearable condition;

1. Ventilation of intense feelings toward persons less threatening than the one who aroused
2. Dealing with emotional conflict by a temporary alteration in consciousness or identity
4. feelings
5. Immobilization of a portion of the personality resulting from unsuccessful completion of
8. Separation of the emotions of a painful event or situation from the facts involved; acknowledging the facts but not the emotions
10. Excluding emotionally painful or anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings from conscious awareness
11. Expression of an emotional conflict through the development of a physical symptom,
12. Moving back to a previous developmental stage to feel safe or have needs met
13. a personal, social, or occupational goal
14. Overachievement in one area to offset deficiencies in another area