Are You 'Intellectualising' To Avoid Distress? Here's How To Tell.

Resident Clinical Psychologist, Dr Khosi Jiyane interrogates the phenomenon of intellectualization of feelings, which is said to be a defense mechanism by which reasoning is used to block confrontation with an unconscious conflict and its associated emotional stress – where thinking is used to avoid feeling. It involves emotionally removing one's self from a stressful event.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.