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Covering a weakness with a more desireable trait
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Compensation
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Giving logical reasons to justify behavior
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Rationalization
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Denial
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Refusing to acknowledge the existence of a problem
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Reaction formation
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Exaggerating opposite thoughts or behaviors (love instead of hate)
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Displacement
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Transferring feelings from one target to another that is less threatening
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Regression
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Retreating to an earlier developmental level
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Acquiring characteristics of an individual that one admires
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Identification
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Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from awareness
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Repression
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Rationalizaing or reasoning instead of expressing emotions
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Intellectualization
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Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are unacceptable into constructive activities
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Sublimation
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Introjection
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Integrating others' values or beliefs into your own personality
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Suppression
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Voluntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from awareness
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Isolation
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Separating the thought or memory from the emotion associated with it
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Symbolically negating or canceling out an experience that is not tolerable
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Undoing
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Projection
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Attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable to yourself onto another person
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