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Acting Out

Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)

Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another

Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another

Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable

Deterioration of existing defenses

Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action

Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)

Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)

Compensation

Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)

Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another

Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another

Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable

Deterioration of existing defenses

Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action

Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)

Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)

Conversion

Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)

Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another

Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another

Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable

Deterioration of existing defenses

Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action

Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)

Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)

Decompensation

Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)

Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another

Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another

Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable

Deterioration of existing defenses

Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action

Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)

Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)

Deniel

Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)

Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another

Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another

Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable

Deterioration of existing defenses

Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action

Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)

Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)

Devaulation

Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)

Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another

Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another

Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable

Deterioration of existing defenses

Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action

Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)

Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)

Dissociation

Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)

Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another

Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another

Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable

Deterioration of existing defenses

Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action

Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)

Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)

Displacement

Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)

Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another

Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another

Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable

Deterioration of existing defenses

Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action

Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)

Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)

Idealization

Enables one to make up for real or fancied deficiencies (person who stutters becomes a creative writer)

Overestimation of an admired aspect or attribute of another

Frequently used by people with BPD, in which a person attributes exaggerated negative qualities to self or another

Inability to acknowledge true significance of thoughts, feelings, wishes, behavior, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable

Deterioration of existing defenses

Person to split mental functions in a manner that allows to express forbidden or unconscious impulses without taking responsibility for the action

Directing an impulse, wish, or feeling toward a person or situation that is not its real object, thus permitting expression in a less threatening situation (man angry at boss, kicks the dog)

Emotional conflict is dealt with through actions rather than feelings (instead of talking about feeling neglected, person will get into trouble to get attention)

Repressed urge is expressed disguised as a disturbance of body function, usually of the sensory, voluntary nervous system (as pain, deafness, blindness, convulsions, tics)

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