Rationalization is putting something into different light or offering a different explanation for one’s perceptions or behaviors in the face of a changing reality. For example, a woman who starts dating a man she really likes and suddenly get dumped for no reason, she re-imagines the situation in her mind with the thought “I suspected he was a loser all along".
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Introduction
Defense mechanisms are behaviors used to separate themselves from unpleasant actions or thoughts. The psychological strategies may help ...
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Projection is the misattribution of a person’s undesired thoughts, feelings or impulses into another person who does not have those. It is...
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Undoing is the attempt to take back an unconscious behavior or thought that is un acceptable or hurtful. For instance, after realizing tha...
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Displacement is the redirecting of thoughts, feeling and impulses directed at one person or object, but taken out upon another person or o...
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