Situation : Gringo seeks psychiatric counselling for his ritualistic behavior of counting his money as many as 10 times before leaving home. Q. The defense mechanism used by persons with obsessive compulsive disorder is undoing and it is best described in one of the following statements:

Unacceptable feeling or behaviour are kept out of awareness by developing the opposite behaviour or emotion.Consciously unacceptable instinctual drives are diverted into personally and socially acceptable channels Something unacceptable already done is symbolically acted in reverse.Transfer of emotions associated with a particular person, object or situation to another less threatening person, object or situation.

Explanation.

Something unacceptable already done is symbolically acted in reverse.