intellectualization


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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict

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Defenses such as intellectualization, isolation, and rationalization fall into this category.
The case of South Africa-based CASAS, which is introduced in chapter 5, is a good example to show African-language harmonization for purposes of education, intellectualization, and development.
We observe that health professionals commonly use rationalization and intellectualization as defense mechanisms.
In his more than two hours long dialogue and intellectualization of the learned participants, the honourable judge lamented the tax non-payment culture and our collective insensitivity towards healthy environment and natural resources in the country.
Perception in this sense is not the result of intellectualization and cannot be achieved by the mind alone.
And yet, with Pennington I turn to an intellectualization that gleans an ideational return to an Africa in the past.
The second trend can be called a trend towards intellectualization, and it can be explained in two aspects.
(1) One of the hallmarks of this system has been its leaders' commitment to the modernization of Islamic studies or, as Dhofier calls it, to its "intellectualization" through a conscious embrace of both Western and Islamic intellectual traditions.
To remedy this, McStay reintroduces qualia, feeling, emotion, neuroscience, and the "value of sensation and poetic appreciation as a subject of inquiry, over abstraction and intellectualization" (pp.
Against Max Weber's assertion that modernity "is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world'" ("Science as a Vocation," 1918), Ross suggests that the world has always been disenchanted and enchanted.
The IDC also adopts a foundational infrastructure management system with high-level of automation and intellectualization that achieves industry-leading standards.
The structure of basic network is ossified and the core part is short of intellectualization, which leads to low capacity of security, controllability, adaptability, extendibility, and evolving ability.