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overcompensation
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overcompensation
alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, compensation, decompensation, defense mechanism, dereism, dereistic thinking, displacement, dissociation, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, isolation, negativism, projection, psychotaxis, rationalization, resistance, sociological adjustive reactions, sublimation, substitution, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawalFor further exploring for "overcompensation" in Webster Dictionary Online