Chapter+5

Consciousness is awareness of things inside and outside ourselves. cancer makes him lose his hair so he makes jokes about being bald. ||
 * > Various Meanings of Consciousness  ||
 * > A Sense of Self ||> Directs Inner Awareness ||> Sensory Awareness ||
 * > The sense of self in which we are aware of ourselves and our existince ||> Awareness to thoughts, images, emotions, or memories, that can not be detected by the senses. Being aware of things inside yourself ||> Awareness of things outside of your body ||
 * **Name of Defense Mechanism** || **Description** || **Example** ||
 * Repression || Burying a painful feeling or thought from your awareness though it may resurface in symbolic form. Sometimes considered a basis of other defense mechanisms. || You can't remember your grandmother's funeral ||
 * Denial || Not accepting reality because it is too painful || Being arrested several times for DUI but not believing you have a problem with alcohol ||
 * Regression || Reverting to an older, less mature way of handling stresses and feelings || Having an argument with your friend and stomping off to another room to pout ||
 * Displacement || Channeling a feeling or thought from its actual source to something or someone else. || When you get mad at your friends playing video games you smash the controller into the floor. ||
 * Altruism || Handling your own pain by helping others. || After your wife dies, you keep yourself busy by volunteering at your church. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px;">Humor || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px;">Focusing on funny aspects of a painful situation. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px;">A person's treatment for
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px;">Suppression || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px;">The effort to hide and control unacceptable thoughts or feelings || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px;">You are attracted to someone but say that you really don't like the person at all ||