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Intellectualization

noun
1.
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict.  Synonym: intellectualisation.






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"Intellectualization" Quotes from Famous Books



... seventy to seventy-five per cent of students who are now unaffected by the influence of athletics. By these methods the motivation of gymnastics, which now in large measure goes to waste in enthusiasm, could be utilised to aid the greatly needed intellectualization of those exercises which in their nature are more akin to work than play. Indeed, Gutsmuths's first definition of athletics was "work under the garb of youthful pleasure." So to develop these courses that they could chiefly, if not entirely, satisfy the requirements for the A.B. degree, ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall



Words linked to "Intellectualization" :   defence mechanism, defense mechanism, defense, psychiatry, defense reaction, psychological medicine, defence reaction, defence, psychopathology



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