Intellectualization

Intellectualization is the overemphasis on the mind moderating in a human. Here, emotions and feelings are reduced to the logic.

Psychologically, the behavior is explained by the fact that the person through abstract thinking and generalization control or minimize emotional conflicts wants (see also defense mechanism ). The therapist John Bradshaw writes: ". Through generalize and universalize it is ensured that the categories are so far and abstract terms that you lose contact with the concrete, sensual tangible reality ," He recalls that the intellectualization often the avoidance of shame used and in the context of family systems can have addictive character.