Defense Mechanisms ✓

Compensation: emphasizing personal strengths in one area to shift focus from failure in another area ( overshadowing)

Denial: Refusing to accept an obvious situation because of emotional pain it causes.

Displacement: taking out one's anger or frustration on a person or object that is not the cause of the offense

Identification: Associating with people or groups that are of a higher status in order to increase your own status

Intellectualization: Describing painful or emotional personal events in academic or philosophical terms

Projection: Casting the feelings you have onto another person: Blaming another person for the feelings you have.
Hypocritical

Rationalization: Making logical excuses for illogical behavior

Reaction formation: Replacing feelings that are socially or personally unacceptable with emotions that are acceptable

Regression: Reverting to childlike behavior to get the attention you got when you were younger or to get your way

Repression: Unconsciously forgetting information that is too painful to recall

Sublimation: Using exercise or physical activity as a substitute for sexual energies