Defense Mechanisms

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