Defense Mechanisms

Rationalization

• Making excuses to avoid person/problem

• Transfer of unacceptable feelings or thoughts into the unconscious mind

• Dreamlike thoughts while awake

• Blaming someone else for your

  mistakes instead of owning up to it

Projection

• Day dream thoughts while awake

• Taking out your anger on someone else

• Blaming someone else for your mistakes instead of owning up to it

• Disbelief of an event that is too frightening for a person to cope

Displacement

• Taking out your anger on someone else

• Person is aware of bad thoughts/feelings & refuses to deal w/ them

• Person can either cease to communicate or remove themselves physically from a situation

• Substituting one goal to achieve another

Compensation

• Making excuses to avoid a person/problem

• Transfer of unacceptable feelings or thoughts into the unconscious mind

• The reversion to an earlier stage of development

• Substituting one goal to achieve another

Daydreaming

• Person can either cease to communicate or remove themselves physically from a situation

• Dreamlike thoughts while awake

• Taking out your anger on someone else

• Blaming someone else for your

  mistakes instead of owning up to it

Repression

• Substituting one goal to achieve another

• Blaming someone else for your mistakes instead of owning up to it

• Transfer of unacceptable feelings or thoughts into the unconscious mind

• The reversion to an earlier stage of development

Suppression

• Person is aware of bad thoughts/feelings & refuses to deal w/ them

• Dreamlike thoughts while awake

• Making excuses to avoid a person/problem

• Person can either cease to communicate or remove themselves physically from a situation

Regression

• Person can either cease to communicate or remove themselves physically from a situation

• The reversion to an earlier stage of development

• Transfer of unacceptable feelings or thoughts into the unconscious mind

• Taking out your anger on

  someone else

Denial

• Blaming someone else for your

  mistakes instead of owning up to it

• Dreamlike thoughts while awake

• The reversion to an earlier stage of development

• Disbelief of an event that is too frightening for a person to cope

Withdrawal

• Blaming someone else for your

  mistakes instead of owning up to it

• Person can either cease to communicate or remove themselves physically from a situation

• The reversion to an earlier stage of development

• Transfer of unacceptable feelings or thoughts into the unconscious mind