WorksheetsDefense Mechanisms
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 15mins
An overemphasis on thinking to cope with painful thoughts, emotions or impulses. The situation is viewed without emotion – in a detached objective manner.
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Redirecting negative thoughts, emotions, or behaviors onto a neutral person or object.
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Taking something positive or negative of ourselves and seeing it on another. It usually involves feelings or thoughts we find unacceptable.
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Reframing an uncomfortable or painful experience as not problematic or upsetting. Used to diminish pain or guilt.
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A healthy redirection of an unaccepted emotion, thought or impulse into a more acceptable direction.
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Placing an unacceptable thought, emotion or experience out of awareness and into the unconscious where it is “forgotten”.
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Exhibiting the exact opposite of a reaction we find too threatening to feel or experience.
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Consciously choosing to block ideas or impulses that are undesirable, as opposed to repression, a subconscious process.
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Refusal to accept an aspect of reality that is threatening or painful.
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Moving to an earlier stage of development when confronted with unacceptable circumstance.
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