Defense Mechanisms - to defend the ego, these mechanisms work unconsciously against pain

 Repression - is the unconscious forgetting of negative experiences

 Reaction formation - is doing exactly the opposite of what one is feeling

 Fixation - is when a psychic energy is blocked at one stage of development

 Regression - results when one returns to an earlier behavior

 Undoing - moving away from pleasant experience by doing a ceremonial or repetitious

behavior

 Isolation - is establishing a period of block out marked by obsessive thoughts to isolate

experience

 Projection - is seeing in others your unacceptable behavior

 Sublimation - is contributing to society to elevate the aim of sexual instinct

 Introjection - incorporating positive qualities of another person into their own ego