AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Intellectualization. Intellectualization involves a person using reason and logic to avoid uncomfortable or anxiety-provoking emotions.

Detailed explanation-2: -In psychology, intellectualization (intellectualisation) is a defense mechanism by which reasoning is used to block confrontation with an unconscious conflict and its associated emotional stress – where thinking is used to avoid feeling. It involves emotionally removing one’s self from a stressful event.

Detailed explanation-3: -Intellectualization as a psychodynamic defense mechanism refers to an emphasized focus on facts, logic, and abstract reasoning to allow a person to assert control over and reduce unpleasant emotions associated with internal or external events.

Detailed explanation-4: -Intellectualisation. Intellectualising involves speaking about emotional experiences, memories or thoughts in a detached, emotionless way. For example, someone tells you about their experience of having their heart broken, but what they are saying and how they are saying it don’t quite match up.

Detailed explanation-5: -Here are a few common defense mechanisms: Denial. Repression. Projection. Displacement.