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1
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Expressing unacceptable feelings and thoughts through actions

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Acting out

2
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Separating feelings from ideas and events

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Isolation

3
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Temporary drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid any emotional stress

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Dissociation

4
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Transferring avoided ideas and feelings to a neutral person or object

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Displacement

5
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Modeling behavior after another person who is more powerful

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Identification

6
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Avoiding awareness of some painful reality

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Denial

7
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Partially remaining at a more childish level of development

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Fixation

8
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Expressing negativity and performing below what is expected as an indirect show of opposition

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Passive aggresion

9
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Attributing an unacceptable internal impulse to an external source

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Projection

10
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Involuntarily withholding an idea or feeling from conscious awareness

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Repression

11
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Believing that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity. Commonly seen in borderline personality disorder.

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Splitting

12
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Replacing a warded-off idea or feeling by an emphasis on its opposite

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Reaction formation

13
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Proclaiming logical reasons for actions actually performed for other reasons, usually to avoid self-blame

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Rationalization

14
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Turning back the maturational clock and going back to earlier modes of dealing with the world

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Regression

15
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Alleviating negative feelings via unsolicited generosity

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Altruism

16
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Appreciating the amusing nature of anxiety-provoking or adverse situation

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Humor

17
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Replacing an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to wish but does not conflict with one’s value system

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Sublimation

18
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Intentional withholding an idea or feeling from conscious awareness (temporary)

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Suppression