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EGO DEFENCE MECHANISMS

1. Repression; the ego excludes any painful or undesirable thoughts, memores, feelings or impulses from the conscious.
2. Projection; individual assigns their own undesirable emotions and characteristics to another individual.
3. Reaction Formation; individual expresses the opposite omotion, feeling or impulse than that which cause anxiety.
4. Displacement; the energy that is genereted toward a potentially dangerous or inappropriate target is refocused to a safe target.
5. Sublimation; this is positive displacement where by the frustruating target is replaced with a positive target.
6. Regression; this returns to an ealier  stage of development .
7. Rationalization; an individual creates a sensible explanation for an illogical.
8. Denial; an individual does not aknowledge an event or situation that may be unpleasant or traumatic.
9. Identification; person takes on the qualities of another person to reduce the fear and anxiety toward that person.