Seven Defense Mechanisms
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Projection
anxiety is reduced by attributing threatening impulses to others
Repression
anxiety is reduced by banishing provoking thoughts (that could reemerge dreams)
Displacement
anxiety is reduced by diverting aggressive feelings to an acceptable object
Reaction Formation
anxiety is reduced by making unacceptable impulses look like opposites
Regression
anxiety is reduced by moving back to a previous psychosexual stage
Denial
anxiety is reduced by refusing to admit that something unpleasant has happened
Rationalization
anxiety is reduced by self-explaining things in a way that hides that behavior's actual reason
