Repression Unacceptable or unpleasant impulses A woman is unable to recall

pushed back into the unconscious that she was raped

Regression People behave as if they were at an Making tantrums when you

earlier stage of development do not get what you want

Displacement Redirecting of the expression of Your teacher scolded you

unwanted feeling from a more and to displace your anger
threatening powerful person to a weaker you scold your younger
one. sister

Rationalization Provide self-justifying explanations in Sour-graping

place of the actual, but threatening
reason for their behavior

Denial Complete rejection of a thought or He loves me, he is just busy

feeling thats why he finds no time
for me.

Projection People attribute unwanted impulses and A man who is angry with his
feelings to someone else father acts lovingly to his
father but complains that
his father is angry with him.

Sublimation Redirect the feeling into a socially A person with a strong

productive activity feeling of aggression
becomes a bungee jumper

Reaction Unconscious impulses are expressed as A mother who

Formation their opposite in consciousness unconsciously resents her
child acts in an overly loving
way toward the child

Suppression You are vaguely aware of the thought or I am not that disappointed,
feeling, but try to hide it. its ok.

Intellectualization A type of rationalization, only more

intellectualized

Undoing Trying to undo or reverse feeling by doing

something that indicates the opposite
feeling. It may be an apology for the
feeling you find unacceptable within
yourself.