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When Intellectualizing Becomes a Defense Against Feeling

My therapist asked me to explain my childhood trauma in my own words and I gave her a perfect academic summary and she said that is not what she meant.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind's capacity for analysis can become a sophisticated form of emotional avoidance.

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