Intellectualization is a defense mechanism that removes emot

Intellectualization is a defense mechanism that removes emotion from a situation and deals with the facts of the situation True False

Solution

TRUE.

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 pseudo-rational justification of irrational acts.