Ego Defense Mechanisms

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Across
  1. 1. Accepting another person’s attitudes, beliefs, and values as one’s own.
  2. 5. Ventilation of intense feelings toward persons less threatening than the one who aroused those feelings.
  3. 9. Excluding emotionally painful or anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings from conscious awareness.
  4. 11. Failure to admit the reality of a situation or how one enables the problem to continue.
  5. 12. Overachievement in one area to offset real or perceived deficiencies in another are.
  6. 15. Substituting a socially acceptable activity for an impulse that is unacceptable.
  7. 16. Overt or covert antagonism toward remembering or processing anxiety-producing information.
  8. 17. Excusing own behavior to avoid guilt, responsibility, conflict, anxiety, or loss of self-respect.
  9. 18. Moving back to a previous developmental stage to feel safe or have needs met.
  10. 19. Exhibiting acceptable behavior to make up for or negate unacceptable behavior.
Down
  1. 2. formation, Acting the opposite of what one thinks or feels (2 words).
  2. 3. Immobilization of a portion of the personality resulting from unsuccessful completion of tasks in a developmental stage.
  3. 4. Separation of the emotions of a painful event or situation from the facts involved.
  4. 6. Unconscious blaming of unacceptable inclinations or thoughts on an external object.
  5. 7. Dealing with emotional conflict by a temporary alteration in consciousness or identity.
  6. 8. Conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts and feelings from conscious awareness.
  7. 10. Expression of an emotional conflict through the development of a physical symptom, usually sensorimotor in nature.
  8. 13. Replacing the desired gratification with one that is more readily available.
  9. 14. Modeling actions and opinions of influential others while searching for identity or aspiring to reach a personal, social, or occupational goal.