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Adaptive and maladaptive defense mechanisms

Across
A distruption in consciousness, memory, identiy, or perception of the enviornment that results in compartmentalizing uncomfortable or unpleasant aspects of oneself
Escaping unpleasant, anxiety causing thoughts, feelings, wishes, orneeds by ignoring their existence
Used to counterbalance perceived deficiencies by emphasizing strengths
Reverting to an earlier, more primitive and childlike pattern of behavior
The conscious denial of a disturbing situation or feeling
A process in which events are anlyzed based on remote, cold facts and without passion, rather than incorporating feelings and emotion into the processing
Justifying illogical or unreasonable ideal, actions, or feelings by developing acceptable explainations that staisfy the teller and the listener
The unconscious transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom with no organic cause
Down
The uncinscious rejection of emotionally unacceptable features and attributing them to others
Attributing to noeself the characteristics of another person or group
Seen in children . it is when a person makes up for an act or communication
When unacceptable feelings or behaviors are controlled and kept out of awraeness by developing the opposite behavior or emotion
The transference of emotions associated with a particular person, object, orsituation to another nonthreatening person, ojbect, or situation
An unconscious exclusion of unpleasant or unwanted experiences, emotions, or ideal from conscious awareness
An uncinscious process of substituting mature and socially acceptable behavior for immature and unacceptable impulses
The inability to intergrate the positive and negative qualities of oneself or others into a cohesive image