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Psychotherapy
Published in Bhaskar Punukollu, Michael Phelan, Anish Unadkat, MRCPsych Part 1 In a Box, 2019
Bhaskar Punukollu, Michael Phelan, Anish Unadkat
Intellectualization: Using intellectual thoughts or ideas excessively to avoid distressing emotional experiences. The person may avoid intimacy by placing excess importance on inanimate intellectual items. Attention is given excessively to external reality in order to avoid expression of inner feelings.
Retributional Terrorists
Published in Raymond H. Hamden, Psychology of Terrorists, 2018
Intellectualization is a neurotic defense mechanism that involves focusing on the intellectual or logical aspects of a situation and ignoring the emotional aspects. By concentrating only on facts and logic, an individual can distance themselves from the negative emotions that might arise from the situation. Intellectualization is used by retributional terrorists to avoid feeling empathy for the victims of their attacks. While attacking people, they may focus on statistics, race, religion, and ethnicity of the people to avoid focusing on the victim’s emotions, pain, and suffering.
Questions and Answers
Published in David Browne, Brenda Wright, Guy Molyneux, Mohamed Ahmed, Ijaz Hussain, Bangaru Raju, Michael Reilly, MRCPsych Paper I One-Best-Item MCQs, 2017
David Browne, Brenda Wright, Guy Molyneux, Mohamed Ahmed, Ijaz Hussain, Bangaru Raju, Michael Reilly
Answer: C. Intellectualisation is considered to be a neurotic defence mechanism as it involves overly using intellectual processes to avoid conflict. Other defence mechanisms considered to be ‘mature’ are asceticism and humour. It should be noted that various psychoanalytic authors have differing views on how the defence mechanisms should be classified. [P. p. 585]
Otherness and Our Sexuality: Laplanche Clinically
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2022
When her analyst does make interpretations, Mrs. C does not resonate with them. She is generally unsure, challenging, questioning, and intellectualized about the intervention. In fact, as her analysis progresses one sees even less emotional involvement and increased doubting and intellectualization. We typically expect when interpretations hit the mark that the patient is responsive by providing additional relevant material, or dream commentary, and other remarks that reflect the productiveness and usefulness of the intervention. A new translation of past fantasy can take place. This does not happen, but the analyst persists in his narrow understanding of her motives. It removes the pleasure from engagement with others, including her analyst. We know through repeated empirical testing that the importance of a good, caring, trusting, emotional interaction between analyst and patient accounts for the major source of variance in treatment; that is, it carries the major feature of positive outcome. That was not the case between these two. Mrs. C is always unsure about her feelings and whether she is judging reality accurately. Since her analyst rarely joins with her in a discussion of her feelings, she is left to ponder alone and feel confused, reactivating her typical approach to interactions. Because she is so unsure of what she feels and knows, suggestion can often come into play, which is not addressed.
Navigating Loss Through Creativity: Influences of Bereavement on Creativity and Professional Practice in Art Therapy
Published in Art Therapy, 2020
One way that grieving therapists might identify and resolve experiences of loss is through engagement in creative expression. Several authors (Brennan, 2015; Cornell, 2014; Harter, 2007) have suggested creative activity as a means to not only process grief symptoms, but also to inspire new developments in personal meaning and self-awareness to the benefit of the therapeutic relationship. Additionally, Letherby and Davidson (2015) argued for therapists’ collective movement away from academic intellectualization for the sake of deepening the natural embodied states we hold as creative beings. Although there exists relevant literature on therapists’ grief (Broadbent, 2013; Callahan & Dittloff, 2007; Felberbaum, 2010; Kouriatis & Brown, 2013–2014; Tsai et al., 2010) and the uses of visual art with the bereaved (Weiskittle & Gramling, 2018), there is a significant limitation in research focusing on bereaved art therapists.
The Use of an Object
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2019
Winnicott (1953, 1969) is referring in the just-mentioned writings to the psychical use of an object: to what happens to an external object in the subject’s internal world. An object might be used in a concrete way, incorporated to the point that it looks as if it has been taken in, but it soon becomes apparent that it might have been ingested but not absorbed, so that it is reproduced at a later date in an unmetabolized way. This can happen particularly in situations where intellectualization and rationalization serve to strip the encounter of its rawness, with the result that any reaction is dulled and a response becomes impossible. What presents in place of a response is an amalgam of part-objects, stray words and phrases passing as “facts” or “informed opinion,” coupled with societal and cultural assumptions and stuck together with unprocessed reactions, displaced from a whole variety of prior experiences. This mess is then packaged up in folds of intellectualization and rationalization, before being refashioned as reasonably presented arguments and self-evident proclamations, yet the mess remains.