| A | B |
|---|
| Compensation | defenses against feelings of inferiority and inadequacy growing out of real or imagined personal defects or weaknessess. |
| Conversion | Somatic changes expressed in symbolic body language. Psychic pain is given a location in some part of the body. |
| Denial | Avoidance of awareness of some painful aspect of reality. |
| Displacement | Investment of repressed feelings in a substitute object. |
| Association | obtaining gratification through association with another person who is gratifying the same instincts. |
| Identification | process by which an individual becomes like another person in one or several respects. |
| Introjection | taking in an idea or image so that it becomes part of oneself. |
| Inversion | turning against the self; object of aggressive drive or impulse is changed from another person to the self. |
| Isolation of Affect | A splitting of ideas from the feelings originally associated with them. |
| Intellectualization | the psychological binding of instinctual drives in intellectual activities |
| Projection | attributing a painful impulse or idea to someone else or the world. |
| Rationalization | an attempt to give a logical explanation for painful unconscious material to avoid such feelings as guilt and shame. |
| Reaction Formation | replacement in conscious awareness of a painful idea opr feeling by its opposite |
| Regression | a retreat to an earlier phase of psychosocial development |
| Repression | the act of obliterating material from conscious awareness |
| Reversal | form of reaction formation aimed at protection from painful affect |
| Splitting | external objects are either all good or all bad |
| Substitution | substitution of one affect for another |
| Sublimation | deflecting the energies of instinctual drives to generally positive aims that are more acceptable to the ego and superego. |
| undoing | ritualistic performance of the opposite of an act one has recently committed to cancel out or balance the evil that may have lurked in the act |
| Identification with the Aggressor | transform him/herself from the person threatened to the person making the threat |
