Synonyms and related words :
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, withdrawal