Yellow
Bile (fire)
Blood Black Bile
(air) (earth)
Phlegm
(water)
Pessimistic Touchy
Reserved Restless
Unsociable Aggressive
Quiet Excitable
Changeable
Impulsive
Melancholic Choleric Optimistic
(earth) (fire) Active
Phlegmatic Sanguine
(water) (air)
Feedback
Less More
Less Known Unknown
Known by
Known Arena (1) Blindspot (3)
Others
Exposure
Unknown Façade (2) Unknown (4) Unknown by
Others
More
Known by Unknown by
self self
Level 1
Denial Failure to acknowledge an unbearable Diabetic person eating chocolate candy
condition; failure to admit the reality of a Spending money freely when broke
situation or how one enables the problem to Waiting 3 days to seek help for severe
continue abdominal pain.
Delusional Projection Frank delusions about external reality, usually
of a persecutory type
Attributing non-reality based thoughts,
emotions and impulses to others
Splitting All or nothing thinking deeply religious person who thinks of others as
Division or polarization of beliefs, actions, being either blessed or damned
objects, or persons into good and bad by the child of divorced parents who idealizes and
focusing selectively on their positive or idolizes one parent and shuns the other
negative attributes hospital in-patient who sees the physicians as
helpful and dedicated and the nurses as lazy and
incompetent.
Conversion Expression of an emotional conflict through Teenager forbidden to see X-rated movies is
the development of a physical tempted to do so by friends and
symptom, usually sensorimotor in nature develops blindness, and the teenager is
unconcerned about the loss of sight
Distortion A gross reshaping of external reality to meet
internal needs including hallucinations, wish-
fulfilling delusions, and using sustained
feelings of delusional superiority or
