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 ones 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