Defense Mechanisms

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Across
  1. 5. occurs when emotional conflicts or stressors are handled by attributing negative qualities to self or others
  2. 7. an individual may deal with emotional conflicts or stressors by emphasizing the amusing or ironic aspects of the conflict or stressor
  3. 8. transfer of emotions associated with a particular person, object, or situation to another person, object, or situation that is nonthreatening
  4. 9. unconsciously rejects emotionally unacceptable personal features and attributes them to other people, objects, or situations.
  5. 11. consists of justifying illogical or unreasonable ideas, actions or feelings by developing acceptable explanations that satisfy the teller as well as the listener
  6. 12. aggression toward others is expressed through procrastination, failure, inefficiency, passivity and illnesses that affect others more than oneself
  7. 13. an unconscious process of substituting constructive and socially acceptable activity for strong impulses that are not acceptable in their original form
  8. 14. emotional conflicts and stressors are addressed by meeting the needs of others.
  9. 15. the inability to integrate the positive and negative qualities of oneself or others into a cohesive image
  10. 16. transforming anxiety on an unconscious level into a physical symptoms that has no organic cause
  11. 17. a disrupting in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment
  12. 18. the conscious denial of a disturbing situation of feeling
Down
  1. 1. formation unacceptable feelings of behaviors are kept out of awareness by developing the opposite behavior or emotion
  2. 2. compensates for an act or communication (e.g., giving a gift to undo an argument)
  3. 3. emotional conflicts or stressors are addressed by attributing exaggerated positive qualities to others
  4. 4. involves escaping unpleasant realities by ignoring their existence
  5. 6. an individual addresses emotional conflicts or stressors by actions rather than by reflections or feelings
  6. 10. exclusion of unpleasant or unwanted experiences, emotions, or ideas from conscious awareness