1) Intellectualisation
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Intellectualization is a defense mechanism where reasoning is used to block confrontation with an unconscious conflict and its associated emotional stress where thinking is used to avoid feeling. It involves removing one`s self, emotionally, from a stressful event. Intellectualization may accompany, but is different from rationalization, the pseu....
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An unconscious defense mechanism in which reasoning, logic, or focusing on and verbalizing intellectual minutiae is used in an attempt to avoid confrontation with an objectionable impulse, affect, or interpersonal situation. ... Origin: L. Intellectus, perception, discernment ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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(in″tә-lek″choo-әl-ĭ-za´shәn) a type of defense mechanism in which reasoning is used to avoid confronting an objectionable impulse and thus to defend against anxiety.
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A mental mechanism in which the person engages in excessive abstract thinking to avoid confrontation
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Type: Term Pronunciation: in′te-lek′chū-ăl-i-zā′shŭn Definitions: 1. An unconscious defense mechanism in which reasoning, logic, or focusing on and verbalizing intellectual minutiae used in an attempt to avoid confrontation with an objectionable impulse, affect, or interpersonal situation.
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n] - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
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