1. Freud’s defense mechanisms
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2. Denial
• Blocking out a fact mentally because it is
too painful too accept

3. displacement
• Taking out one’s feelings or frustrations on
someone or something other than that
created those feelings

4. projection
• The misattribution of one’s undesired
thoughts, onto a person who does not
have those thoughts

5. rationalization
• Justifying one’s act by providing a ‘good”
reason for doing it.

6. Reaction formation
• Converting of irrational thoughts into their
positive opposites

7. regression
• A reversion to an earlier stage of
development in the face of unwanted fears
or thoughts.

8. repression
• Burying a bad thought or fear in one’s
mind that can be brought out in symboloic
form

9. sublimation
• Redirecting unacceptable drives into
acceptable channels