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1
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Displacement

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Place unwanted/unpleasant feelings onto someone less threatening or an innocent bystander.

2
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Projection

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Taking your emotions and placing it onto others who do not have these emotions

3
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Introjection

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To place someone’s feelings, characteristics, or traits into yourself

4
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Projective Identification

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Seen in Borderline Personality Disorder

Someone who identifies others as having “their” feelings, however, they do not show those feelings.

5
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Splitting

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Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder identify a person as either all good or all bad

6
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Rationalization

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Making excuses or justifying actions to avoid unwanted feelings

7
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Denial

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Refusing to acknowledge the truth or facts

8
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Repression/Suppression

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Putting painful thought and memories away and forgetting them

9
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Sublimation

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A healthy redirection of an emotion

Ex: you release anger through kickboxing

10
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Reaction-Formation

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Turn painful feelings into the opposing

Ex: a person has a sudden loss shows a happy mood

11
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Undoing

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Taking back unwanted behaviors with praises or gifts

12
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Isolation of Affect

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Expressing no emotions when confornted with difficult events. No emotions during a crisis