Intellectualization

Exactly.

Intellectualization is a powerful defense mechanism.

By analyzing his fatigue through trauma processing, she turns him from a partner in need of connection into a clinical subject.

She becomes the detached diagnostician.

There are lots of different kinds of ways that we show up that would be protective of ourselves.

Intellectualization is one of them.

Perfectionism is one of those ways that I have seen a lot and I've experienced a lot in my career as well.

And I would add compartmentalization to that where, okay, it's like the severance thing again.