A mental defense mechanism in which the person engages in excessive abstract thinking to avoid confrontation with conflicts or disturbing feelings. It may be associated with obsessional or paranoid thinking.
The utilization of reasoning as a defense against confrontation with unconscious conflicts and their stressful emotions.
A defense mechanism.
In psychiatry, defense mechanism in which reasoning is used to block emotional conflict and stress.
A coping mechanism that relies on purely cognitive solutions to problems, without engaging or incorporating one’s emotional responses to them.