Defense Mechanisms

Defense Mechanisms

Compensation

Covering weaknesses by emphasizing a more desirable trait

Denial

Attempt to screen unacceptable realities by refusing to acknowledge them

Displacement

Transferring emotional reactions to another object or person

Identification

Dec anxiety by imitating someone

Intellectualization

Use of rational explanation

Introjection

Identifying with others norms

Regression

Resorting to an earlier more comfortable level of functioning

Projection

Occurs when an individual own undesirable impulses are attributed to another person or object.

Rationalization

Occurs when a person gives questionable behavior a logical or socially acceptable explanation. It accounts to behavior justification.

Reaction formation

Occurs when an individual gives reason for behavior that is opposite from its true case.

Sublimation

Occurs when an individual consciously expresses an unacceptable impulses by converting these behaviors into more acceptable form

suppression

Occurs when an individual consciously turns attention away from a perceived threat.