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Defense Mechanisms & Emotions

1. Defense Mechanism An unconscious thought or behavior used to avoid experiencing unpleasant emotions.

2. Denial Refusing to accept reality.

3. Repression Blocking out painful thoughts or feelings.

4. Idealization Copying someone you think highly of because you don’t feel good about who you are

5. Sublimation Redirecting negative impulses into positive behavior.

6. Compensation Making up for weakness in one area by achieving in another.

7. Rationalization Making excuses for or justifying behavior.

8. Projection Seeing your own faults or feelings in someone else.

9. Daydreaming magining pleasant things that take your mind off the unpleasant reality.

10. Displacement Shifting feelings about one person or situation to another.

11. Reaction Formation Behaving in a manner opposite to the way you are feeling

12. Regression Reacting to emotions in a childlike or immature fashion.

Do you know anyone who has experienced any of the Defense Mechanisms we just talked about? ? ? ? ? ?

Emotions

. 3 1 e v Lo A deep care or concern for someone

A. 14 r e ng Strong feeling of being displeased

15 y t i l i t s o. H Feeling or behaving in an unfriendly way

u r F. 6 n o i t a r t s 1 A feeling of disappointment

r a e F 17. Video/2: 15 A scared feeling, to be afraid.

y t e i x n A. 18 Fear of the future or of the unknown

y s u o l a e J. 9 1 Fear of losing something you already have Video/1: 06

. 0 2 y v n E Wanting something someone else has

D. 21 r i a p es A feeling of complete hopelessness

s s e n li e n o L. 2 2 Feeling isolated from others

. 3 2 f e i r G Deep feeling of sadness caused by the loss of someone or something

t l i u G. 4 2 Video/: 35 Feeling of having done something wrong