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mechanisms aim to help individual deal with anxiety and prevent the ego from
being overwhelmed. Once used, they depend on one¡¦s level of development and
degree of anxiety. Below are some of the examples:
Repression:
an involuntary
removal of something from consciousness.
Projection:
involves self-deception consists of attributing to
others one¡¦s own unacceptable desires and impulses.
Displacement:
the expression of an instinctual impulse is
redirected from a more threatening person or object to a less threatening one.
Rationalization:
people manufacture some good reasons to explain away a bruised ego.
Regression:
people revert to
a form of behavior that they have outgrown.
Sublimation:
enables the person
adaptively to divert impulses so that they may be expressed via socially
approved thoughts or actions.
Introjection:
consists
of taking in the values and standards of others.
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