These unconscious behavioral or psychological maneuvers enable the individual
to minimize or avoid anxiety, affects
or impulses arising out of conflict.
denial
| distortion | projection
Immature
acting out |
blocking |
hypochondriasis |
introjection |
passive aggression
| projection |
regression | schizoid fantasy |
somatization
controlling | displacement
| dissociation | externalization | inhibition | intellectualization | isolation of affect
| rationalization |
reaction formation |
repression | sexualization
Mature
altruism | anticipation
| asceticism |
humor | sublimation |
suppression
Unclassified
affiliation | aim inhibition | autistic fantasy | avoidance
| compartmentalization |
compensation | conversion
| counterphobia | deflection | devaluation | fixation |
help-rejecting complaining | idealization |
identification |
identification with the
aggressor |
incorporation | instinctualization |
introjective identification | moralization |
omnipotence |
projective identification | resistance | restitution |
reversal |
restitution | self-assertion |
self-observation |
splitting | substitution | symbolization |
turning against the self | undoing | withdrawal
Also: avoidance
mechanism, defence, escape mechanism, mechanism of defense
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