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 Intellectualization is a transition to reason, where the person avoids uncomfortable emotions by focusing on facts and logic. The situation is treated as an interesting problem that engages the person on a rational basis, whilst the emotional aspects are completely ignored as being irrelevant.
-In psychology, 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 feelings. 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. <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectualization Intellectualization]</ref>
+In psychology, intellectualization is a [[Ego Defense Mechanism]] where reasoning is used to block confrontation with an unconscious conflict and its associated emotional stress – where thinking is used to avoid feelings. 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. <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectualization Intellectualization]</ref>
 ==Ego Defense Mechanism==