Threatening impulses are repressed into the unconscious: they don't disappear but the individual is unaware of them. However, they can emerge as symtoms of anxiety or other problems.
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REGRESSION
Reverting back to childhood
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REACTION FORMATION
Reacting in the opposite way to real emotions
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SUBLIMATION
Channel into socially acceptable behaviour
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PROJECTION
Projecting own shortcomings onto others
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DENIAL
Refusing to accept it happened
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Denial - development
When an individual, child or adult, refuses to accept that a particular incident has happened
EG, the surviving partner of a long and happy marriage may continue to act as though their husband or wife was still alive
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