2. Minimization: This is when someone acknowledges that something happened, but they downplay its importance or significance.
3. Rationalization: This is when someone provides a logical explanation for why something happened, even if the explanation is not actually valid.
4. Projection: This is when someone attributes their own feelings and thoughts to someone else.
5. Displacement: This is when someone redirects their feelings and thoughts from one person or thing to another.
6. Reaction formation: This is when someone expresses feelings and thoughts that are the opposite of what they actually feel.
7. Sublimation: This is when someone channels their unacceptable feelings and thoughts into more socially acceptable behaviors.
8. Repression: This is when someone unconsciously pushes an upsetting or uncomfortable thought, feeling, or memory out of awareness.
9. Dissociation: This is when someone feels a sense of detachment from their own thoughts, feelings, or surroundings.
10. Somatization: This is when someone experiences physical symptoms that are the result of psychological distress.