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intellectualization
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According to Dr Padmaraju, nurses and social workers employ intellectualisation, a defence mechanism whereby reasoning is used to stop the confrontation of emotional stress.
14) Various cognitive processes, which aim to decrease stress, such as refusal, isolation, intellectualisation etc, have been determined.
Ideologies such as Marxism or socialism are an intellectualisation of people's social conditions and the reality of homelessness or exploitation can easily be forgotten during intellectual debates.
 
 
 
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