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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

DEFENSE MECHANISMS. Unconscious thought or behavior used to avoid experiencing unpleasant emotions. DAY DREAMING. Imagining pleasant things that take your mind off the unpleasant reality. Day dreaming in detention about what it will be like when you get to go the beach spring break. DENIAL.

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DEFENSE MECHANISMS

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  1. DEFENSE MECHANISMS Unconscious thought or behavior used to avoid experiencing unpleasant emotions.

  2. DAY DREAMING • Imagining pleasant things that take your mind off the unpleasant reality. • Day dreaming in detention about what it will be like when you get to go the beach spring break

  3. DENIAL • Refusing to accept reality. • Telling everyone that you are still going out with your boyfriend even though he broke up with you.

  4. DISPLACEMENT • Shifting feelings about one person or situation to another person or situation. • Yelling at your family when you are angry at your teacher.

  5. PROJECTION • Seeing your own faults or feelings in someone else. • Accusing your boyfriend of flirting with others because you flirt.

  6. RATIONALIZATION • Making excuses for or justifying behavior • Buying new clothes for the start of school because you just can’t attend in last year’s clothes.

  7. REACTION FORMATION • Act contrary to their genuine feelings in order to keep their true feelings hidden. • A person is angry with a coworker may behave in a “sickly sweet” manner toward that coworker.

  8. REGRESSION • Reacting to emotions in a childlike or immature fashion. • Kicking the lockers because you were sent to the principal’s office.

  9. SUBLIMATION • Redirecting negative impulses into positive behavior. • Painting a mural when you are mad instead of creating destructive graffiti.

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