Ego Mechanisms

The separation of things - disconnect - out of body experience

Putting your own issues or feelings to someone else as an out (Tommy Lee Jones/wife example)

The transfer of feelings from one target to another (step-mom)

Retreating to an earlier level of development (bed-wetting)

Voluntarily blocking thoughts and experiences (I don't want to think about that today)

Attempt to avoid expressing actual emotions associated with a stressful situation by using logic, reasoning, and analysis

Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are unacceptable into constructive activities

Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts from being expressed by exaggerating the opposite

integrating the beliefs and values into one's own ego structure

Making excuses or attempting logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors

Increase self-worth by acquiring attributes of an individual one admires

A loss of or change in body function that cannot be explained medically

Shifting allegiances and valuing to devaluing between love and hate

Involuntarily blocking feelings

Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a more desirable trait

Refusing to acknowledge the existence of a situation or the feelings associated with it

Symbolically negating or canceling out an experience