Personallity

|| **   Example   **  || ||  Father walking out on family, and making up an excuse such as “ he’s on a buisness trip he’ll be back soon” ||    ||   Being afraid of the ocean and never knowing exacttly why, teen finding out later that something tragic happened to you that realtes to your fear of the ocean. ||    ||     ||   Dangerous job, and being afraid but being forced to push away the fear to do yourb job. Example: Firefighters on 911  || ||    ||     ||          ||     ||     ||     ||     ||     ||     ||     ||     ||          ||     ||   Helping others who are causing themselves harm. ||
 * **  Defense Mechanism   **  ||  **   Definition   **
 * 1. Denial  ||   Refuse to experience a certain situation
 * 2. Repression  ||   “Motivated forgetting”; failure to remember a traumatic event
 * 3. Compensation  ||   Striving to make up for unconscious impulses or fears   ||   Not having the body shape that you would like to have and buying clothes to try and make you look better.
 * 4. Isolation (Intellectualization)  ||   Removing emotion involved with difficult/painful experience
 * 5. Displacement  ||   Redirecting impulse on a symbolic substitute
 * 6. Reaction Formation  ||   Changing desire into its opposite
 * 7. Undoing  ||   Use of rituals you believe will remove unpleasant thoughts or feelings
 * 8. Introjection (Identification)  ||   Incorporating personality characteristics of someone else into your own personality in order to deal with a specific situation
 * 9. Projection  ||   Unconscious attributing one’s own unacceptable thoughts to another person   ||
 * 10. Regression   ||   Revisiting/returning to a mental/psychological time when you were faced with stress or conflict
 * 11. Rationalization   ||   Distorting facts to make an event or desire less threatening
 * 12. Sublimation  ||   Transforming an unacceptable impulse into a socially acceptable one