Across
- 3. Shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet
- 4. when a person faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage-thumb sucking
- 6. People refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities, protects the person from real events that are painful to accept
- 7. People disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
- 8. Self justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconsciousness reasons for ones actions, try to hide the real reason for our actions
Down
- 1. Banishes anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
- 2. The ego unconsciously makes unacceptable impulses look like their opposites -"I hate Dad" becomes "I love Dad"
- 5. People re-channel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities