Across
- 4. Placing blame on others for unacceptable desires, thoughts, or mistakes
- 6. Managing anxiety by imitating the behavior of someone feared or respected
- 7. Resorting to an earlier, more comfortable level of functioning
- 8. Transferring emotional reactions from one object to another
- 9. Removing emotional significance from ideas or events
- 10. Covering up weaknesses by emphasizing a more desirable trait
Down
- 1. Replacement of something unacceptable with something acceptable
- 2. Keeping threatening feelings and thoughts hidden from consciousness
- 3. Justification of behaviors by using faulty logic
- 5. Adoption of others' values, even when contrary to previous assumptions
- 9. Ignoring unacceptable realities by refusing to acknowledge them