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Intricacies of Psychological Defense Mechanisms
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- 1. Unconscious act of pushing unwanted thoughts into a mental oubliette
- 2. Attributing one’s own undesirable impulses onto others like an internal spotlight
- 3. Assimilating traits of another to bolster fragile ego boundaries
- 4. Crafting seemingly logical reasons to mask irrational or unacceptable motives
- 6. Refusing to acknowledge painful realities despite overwhelming evidence
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- 5. Detaching from emotional turmoil by adopting clinical or abstract reasoning
- 7. Redirecting emotional charge from original object to a safer substitute target
- 8. Transmuting base urges into culturally valued actions, akin to psychoanalytic alchemy
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