compensation
involves trying to make up for, or trying to cover up some real or imagined inadequacy. People with "Inferiority Complex" try to compensate to build themselves up, either physically or mentally.
Ex: Gossip is a form of compensation. It allows us to reduce
Daydreaming (fantasy)
Involves escaping reality by withdrawing psychologically. Daydreaming is one of the easiest ways to escape the pressures of everyday life. Most daydreams have to do with achievement, success, money, sex, pleasurable activities, and security
Denial
refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities
Displacement
involves transferring feelings from their true source to another source. Sometimes this source is safer and is more socially acceptable.
identification
involves increasing one's feelings of worth by identifying oneself with a person, group, or institution that one fears or looks up to.
Intellectualization
Rather than deal with the painful emotions related to a situation, a person distances themselves from it by focusing on learning as much as they can about it. This preoccupation with educating oneself temporarily relieves the stress of the actual situatio
Projection
is unconsciously transferring your own unacceptable traits onto others.
Rationalization
Involves making up acceptable excuses for behaviors that cause us to feel anxious.
Conversion reaction
Psychological anxiety is converted into a physical problem. Health or concern for health becomes a way of avoiding conflict, frustration, or anxiety. Health provides a suitable excuse for anything.
Reaction formation
Doing the opposite of what you actually feel.
Regression
Involves returning to an earlier and safer stage of psychological development
Repression
Involves unconsciously pushing dangerous ideas, memories, or perceptions into the unconscious. Forgetting memories.
Sublimation
Involves redirecting a threatening or forbidden desire, usually sexual or aggressive, into a socially acceptable one.
Suppression
Involves CONSCIOUSLY trying to forget painful or dangerous memories.
Undoing
Involves doing something positive to offset something negative that already occurred.