The nurse is caring for a client who works as a boxer.The client states,"I was picked on a lot when I was little,so I got really angry and now I work through the anger by boxing." The nurse recognizes the client is demonstrating which ego defense mechanism?

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Sublimation is redirecting socially unacceptable unconscious thoughts and feelings into socially approved outlets.Sublimation is used to channel extreme anger impulses into acceptable behaviors-for example by becoming a butcher or boxer.Denial is the unconscious refusal to allow painful facts,feelings,or perceptions into awareness.Intellectualization is the unconscious focusing on only the intellectual and not the emotional aspects of a situation or circumstance.Repression is unconscious forgetting of parts or all of an experience.

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