Parratoga
13-09-2004, 11:48
Do you use any of these?
Compensation: an unconscious attempt to make up for real or imagined short-comings.
Denial: an unconscious attempt to reject unacceptable feelings, needs, thoughts, wishes, or external reality factors.
Displacement: the unconscious transfer of unacceptable thoughts, feelings or desires from the self to a more acceptable external substitute.
Dissociation: the unconscious separation and detachment of affect from a negatively charged thought, experience, memory, or object.
Idealization: the unconscious overvaluation of a desired attribute of another.
Identification: unconscious redirecting of unacceptable thoughts, feelings or impulses from the external to the self.
Intellectualization: unconscious control of affects or impulses by excessive thinking about them rather than affectively experiencing them.
Introjection: unconscious redirecting of unacceptable thoughts, feelings or impulses from the external to the self.
Minimization: unconscious lessening of importance of an experience or affect.
Projection: an unconscious phenomenon, in which that which is unacceptable or intolerable within the self is rejected and attributed to an external other or others.
Rationalization: the unconscious effort to justify or make consciously tolerable behaviors, feelings, thoughts or desires that are unacceptable.
Reaction formation: unconscious mechanism whereby an individual adopts the opposite thought, feeling or behavior from that which he truly holds.
Regression: unconscious return to more infantile behaviors or thoughts.
Repression: withholding from consciousness or expulsion from awareness of an idea or affect. This usually pertains to an internal reality, whereas denial more generally affects the perception of external reality.
Substitution: unconscious replacement of an unreachable or unacceptable goal by another more acceptable once.
Undoing: unconscious attempt to reverse an unacceptable thought, feeling or behavior by reenacting its opposite, usually repetitively.
Compensation: an unconscious attempt to make up for real or imagined short-comings.
Denial: an unconscious attempt to reject unacceptable feelings, needs, thoughts, wishes, or external reality factors.
Displacement: the unconscious transfer of unacceptable thoughts, feelings or desires from the self to a more acceptable external substitute.
Dissociation: the unconscious separation and detachment of affect from a negatively charged thought, experience, memory, or object.
Idealization: the unconscious overvaluation of a desired attribute of another.
Identification: unconscious redirecting of unacceptable thoughts, feelings or impulses from the external to the self.
Intellectualization: unconscious control of affects or impulses by excessive thinking about them rather than affectively experiencing them.
Introjection: unconscious redirecting of unacceptable thoughts, feelings or impulses from the external to the self.
Minimization: unconscious lessening of importance of an experience or affect.
Projection: an unconscious phenomenon, in which that which is unacceptable or intolerable within the self is rejected and attributed to an external other or others.
Rationalization: the unconscious effort to justify or make consciously tolerable behaviors, feelings, thoughts or desires that are unacceptable.
Reaction formation: unconscious mechanism whereby an individual adopts the opposite thought, feeling or behavior from that which he truly holds.
Regression: unconscious return to more infantile behaviors or thoughts.
Repression: withholding from consciousness or expulsion from awareness of an idea or affect. This usually pertains to an internal reality, whereas denial more generally affects the perception of external reality.
Substitution: unconscious replacement of an unreachable or unacceptable goal by another more acceptable once.
Undoing: unconscious attempt to reverse an unacceptable thought, feeling or behavior by reenacting its opposite, usually repetitively.