| A | B |
|---|
| Direct attack | recognizing the heart of a problem and striving to solve it. |
| Compensatoin | Using a substitute method to achieve a desired goal. |
| Regression | Turning back to a less mature stage of development. |
| Rationalizatoin | Explaining weakness or failures by giving excuses that are socially acceptable but that hide the real reason for failure. |
| Self-actualizatoin | The realization of your full potential according to Maslow. |
| Projection | Blaming other people or things for your failures. |
| Daydreaming | Trying to accomplish in fantasy what you cannot accomplish in reality. |
| Claustrophibia | Fears of being confined in a small space. |
| Idealization | Valuing something far beyond its real worth. |
| Displacment | Transferring an emotion connected with one person or thing to an unrelated person or thing. |
| Conversion | Transferring the energyof a desire you cannot into a physical symptom or complaint. |
| Giving up | Feeling discouraged and refusing to face any more situations in which failure may occur. |
| Generativity | Concern for others and future generations |
