Defense Mechanisms

2. Seeing your own problems in other people to avoid them recognizing yours
4. The balance between id and superego
5. Channeling unwanted feelings and impulses into more acceptable behavior
6. What you SHOULD do
7. Learned morals and ethics
9. Using an excuse to justify unacceptable behavior
12. Transferring aggressive feelings from the true target onto a less threatening one
13. Refusal to admit or recognize that something is wrong
14. Our primitive impulses; pleasure principle
15. Suppressing unwanted memories or urges to the subconscious

1. We use these to avoid uncomfortable or negative feelings about ourselves or situations
3. Acting the exact opposite of how you want to act to hide true feelings
4. What you ACTUALLY do
8. Returning to a previous stage of development
10. This famous psychologist developed the concept of defense mechanisms
11. What you WANT to do