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Cards In This Set
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What is it called when you retreat from facing a painful or difficult situation
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Temporary Withdrawal
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Refusal to admit or acknowledge something so you don't have to deal with it
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denial
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Justifying behavior
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rationalization
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Unconsciulsy blaming another person for your own inadequacies
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projection
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Deliberately pretending to be sick to avoid dealign with a situation
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malingering
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Denying socially unacceptable feelings or strong feelings that cannot be easily expressed.
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intellectualization
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Always putting of until tomorrow what you could do today.
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procrastination
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A way to momentarily excape from reality and relax
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daydreaming
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Using a talent or an attribute to the fullest to compensate for a realized personal shortcoming
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compensations
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Transfer of emotions about one perons or situation to another
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displacement
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Person being purposely involved in a project, hobby, or work so that a painful situaion can be avoided.
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suppression
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Behaving in ways that are typically characteristic of an earlier developmental level
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regression
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The forcing of unacceptable or painful ideas,feelings, and impulses into the unconscious mind without being aware of it
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repression
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Unconsciously used to express socially unacceptable instinctive drives or impulses in approved and acceptable ways.
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sublimation
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