Across
- 3. Associating with people or groups that are of higher status in order to increase your own status
- 4. Refusing to accept an obvious situation because of the emotional pain it causes
- 7. Making logical excuses for illogical behavior
- 8. Casting the feelings you have onto another person; blaming another person for the feelings you have
- 9. Emphasizing personal strengths in one area to shift focus from failure in another area
- 10. Replacing feelings that are socially or personally unacceptable with emotions that are acceptable
Down
- 1. Reverting to childlike behavior to get the attention you got when you were younger or to get your way
- 2. Using exercise or physical activity as a substitute for sexual energies
- 5. Describing painful or emotional personal events in academic or philosophical terms
- 6. Taking out one's anger or frustration on a person or object that is not the cause of the offense
- 7. Unconsciously forgetting information that is too painful to recall