Across
- 3. Unconscious transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom with no organic cause
- 4. Unconscious rejection of emotionally unacceptable features and attributing them to others
- 6. Unconscious process of subsisting mature and socially acceptable activity for immature and unacceptable impulses This is considered constructive use of a defense mechanism.
- 7. Consists of justifying illogical ideas, actions, or feelings by developing acceptable explanations satisfying the teller and listener
- 8. The conscious denial of a disturbing situation or feeling
- 11. Events analyzed based on remote, cold facts and without passion, rather than incorporating feelings and emotion into the processing
- 13. An unconscious exclusion of unpleasant or unwanted experiences, emotions, or ideas from conscious awareness
Down
- 1. Involves escaping unpleasant, anxiety-causing thoughts, feelings, wishes, or needs by ignoring their existence
- 2. Inability to integrate positive and negative qualities of oneself or others into a cohesive image
- 3. Used to counterbalance perceived deficiencies by emphasizing strengths
- 5. Attributing to oneself the characteristics of another person or group. This may be done consciously or unconsciously.
- 7. Unacceptable feelings or behaviors controlled and kept out of awareness by developing the opposite behavior or emotion
- 9. Transference of emotions associated with a particular person, object, or situation to another nonthreatening person, object, or situation
- 10. A disruption in consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment that results in compartmentalizing uncomfortable or unpleasant aspects of oneself.
- 12. Most commonly seen in children. It is when a person makes up for an act or communication.
- 14. Reverting back to an earlier, more primitive and childlike pattern of behavior that may or may not have been previously exhibited