Immature Ego Defenses - more primitiveActing Out: unacceptable feelings and thoughts are expressed through actions eg, tantrums
Dissociation: Temporary , drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress eg, extreme forms can result in dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder)
Denial: Avoidance of awreness of some painful reality eg, a common reaction in newly diagnosed AIDS and cancer patients
Displacement: Process whereby avoided ideas and feelings are transferred to some neutral person or object eg, a man places hate another man because the man reminds him of his own failures
Fixation: Partially remaining at a more childesh level of development (vs. projection) eg, an elderly man exhibiting teenage sexual preferences
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