The Psychology of Self-Deception
Author: Neel Burton
Acheron Press: 2012
This is not quite as massive as it may seem - there are many chapters but most of them are brief.
- Denial
- Repression
- Anger
- Dissociation
- Intellectualization
- Rationalization
- Positive Illusions
- The Manic Defense
- Depression
- Displacement
- Somatization
- Reaction Formation
- Minimization
- Symbolization
- Reification
- Vagueness
- Inauthenticity
- Reconstruction of Reality
- Confabulation
- Splitting
- Dehumanization
- Daydreaming
- Regression
- Socialization
- Garrulousness
- Dramatization
- Grandiosity
- Humor
- Asceticism
- Sublimation
- Altruism
- Anticipation
- Fear and Anxiety
- Projection
- Projective Identification
- Idealization
- Devaluation
- Identification