Therapy Lingo
Defense Mechanisms
- Denial
- Rationalization ("Where would we be, where would any of us be, without good rationalization? Try to live without rationalization; I bet you couldn't do it." Jeff Goldblum in The Big Chill.
- Intellectualisation
- Repression
- Supression
- Regression
- Compensation
- Displacement
- Minimizing
- Sublimation
- Substitution
- Projection
- Identification
- Idealization
- Introjection
- Inversion
- Reaction Formation
- Splitting
- Dissociation
- Somatization
- Undoing, and my favourite...
- Humour
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