Defense Mechanisms

Banishment of highly threatening material from consciousness

• Repression

• Reaction Formation

• Projection

• Introjection

Unconscious impulse consciously represented by its behavioral opposite

• Submlimation

• Regression

• Reaction Formation

• Introjection

Unconscious feelings attributed to another person

• Sublimation

• Projection

• Introjection

• Reaction Formation

person redirects a negative emotion from its original source to a less threatening recipient

• regression

• repression

• displacement

• fixation

anxiety about next psychosexual stage leads to stagnation at current stage

• fixation

• projection

• repression

• reaction formation

return to a stage that previously offered gratification

• stagnation

• repression

• regression

• projection

occurs when a person internalizes the ideas of other people

• introjection

• projection

• reaction formulation

• displacement

socially unacceptable are transformed into socially acceptable actions

• regression

• repression

• introjection

• sublimation